Wednesday February 10, 2010

Professor Todd Kaplan

Professor Todd Kaplan

BS Caltech, MA Minnesota , PhD Minnesota.

Associate Professor in Economics

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Telephone: (01392) 263237

Personal webpage: www.toddkaplan.com/ (opens in a new window)

Research Interests

Taught Modules

Administrative Responsibilities

Selected Publications

Journal publications

  1. Kaplan, T (with Sela, A) (2010), 'Effective Contests', Economics Letters, January 2010, 106 (1), pp. 38-41.
  2. Kaplan, T (with Roulston, M) (2009), ‘A Laboratory-Based Study of Understanding of Uncertainty in 5-Day Site-Specific Temperature Forecasts’, Meteorological Applications, June 2009, 16 (2), pp. 237-244.
  3. Kaplan, T (with Ruffle, B) (2009), ‘In Search of Welfare-Improving Gifts’, European Economics Review, May 2009, 53 (4), pp. 445-460.
  4. Kaplan, T (with Sela, A and Cohen, C) (2008), ‘Optimal Rewards in Contests’, RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2008, 39 (2), pp. 434-451.
  5. Kaplan, T (with Wettstein, D) (2006), ‘Caps on Political Lobbying: Comment’ American Economic Review, 96, pp. 1351-1354.
  6. Kaplan, T (2006), ‘Why Banks Should Keep Secrets’, Economic Theory, February 2006, 27, pp. 341–357.
  7. Kaplan, T (with Brams, S) (2004), ‘Dividing the Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Cabinet Ministries to Political Parties in a Parliamentary’, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 16 (2), pp.143-173.
  8. Kaplan, T (with Ruffle, B) (2004), ‘The Self-Serving Biases and Beliefs about Rationality’, Economic Inquiry, April 2004, 42 (2), pp. 237-246.
  9. Kaplan, T (with Wettstein, D and Luski, I) (2003), ‘Innovative Activity with Sunk Cost’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, October 2003, 21, pp. 1111-1133.
  10. Kaplan, T (with Luski, I and Wettstein, D) (2003), ‘Government Policy towards Multi-National Corporations’, Economics Bulletin, May 2003, 6 (3), pp. 1-8.
  11. Kaplan, T (with Luski, Sela, Wettstein) (2000), ‘All-Pay Auctions with Variable Rewards’, Journal of Industrial Economics, December 2002 L (4), pp. 417-430; ‘Effective Price-Matching’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, December 2000.
  12. Kaplan, T (with Wettstein, D) (2000), ‘Surplus Sharing with a Two-Stage Mechanism’, International Economic Review, May 2000, 41(2), pp. 399-409.
  13. Kaplan, T (with Wettstein, D) (2000), ‘The Possibility of Mixed-Strategy Equilibria with Constant-Returns-to-Scale Technology under Bertrand Competition’, Spanish Economic Review, March 2000, 2(1), pp. 65-71.
  14. Kaplan, T (with Wettstein, D) (1999), ‘Cost Sharing: Efficiency and Implementation’, Journal of Mathematical Economics, December 1999, 32(4), pp. 489-502.
  15. Kaplan, T (with Ruffle, B) (1998), ‘Self-Serving Bias [Comment]’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998, 12(2), pp. 243-244.
  16. Kaplan, T (with Dickhaut, J) (1992), ‘A Program for Finding Nash Equilibria’, The Mathematica Journal, Fall 1992, 1(4), pp. 87-93.

Collective works

  1. Kaplan, T (with Mukherji, A) (1993), ‘Designing an Incentive-Compatible Contract’, Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica, Editor: Hal Varian, Springer-Verlag.
  2. Kaplan, T (with Dickhaut, J) (1993), ‘A Program for Finding Nash Equilibria’, Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica, Editor: Hal Varian, Springer-Verlag.

Papers

  1. Kaplan, T (with Zamir, S), ‘The Strategic Use of Seller Information in Private-Value Auctions.
  2. Kaplan, T (with Zamir, S), ‘Revenue Effects of Asymmetry in Auctions’.
  3. Kaplan, T (with Sela, A), ‘Auctions with Private Entry Costs’.
  4. Kaplan, T (with Chakravarty, S), ‘Optimal Allocation without Transfer Payments'.

Downloads of some of these publications are available from Dr Kaplan's website.