Kevin W. S. Roberts ^[2] FBA was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2020.

He was a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society. ^[3]

Education

Kevin Roberts gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1977. ^{[4] [5]}

Fellowships

• 1987 Econometric Society. ^[6]
• 2007 British Academy. ^[7]
• Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College. ^[8]

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1979), "The characterization of implementable choice rules", in Laffont, Jean-Jacques (ed.), Aggregation and revelation of preferences, Amsterdam New York New York: North-Holland Publishing Co. sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland, ISBN  9780444853264
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1982), "The limit points to monopolistic competition", in Mas-Colell, Andreu (ed.), Noncooperative approaches to the theory of perfect competition, New York: Academic Press, ISBN  9780124767508
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1985), "Cartel behaviour and asymmetric information", in Geroski, Paul; Phlips, Louis; Ulph, Alistair (eds.), Oligopoly, competition, and welfare, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK New York, New York, USA: B. Blackwell, ISBN  9780631144793
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ""Collusion" (definition)", in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN  9780333740408
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ""Enforcement" (definition)", in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN  9780333740408
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1995), "Valued opinions or opinionated values: the double aggregation problem", in Basu, Kaushik; Suzumura, Kotaro; Pattanaik, Prasanta (eds.), Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN  9780198287896
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo Felli (2000), "Competition and hold-ups", in Stern, Nicholas H.; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Glennerster, Howard (eds.), Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima, vol. 22, London: London School of Economics and Political Science, and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, ISBN  9780753013991
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2000), "A reconsideration of the optimal income tax", in Myles, Gareth D.; Hammond, Peter (eds.), Incentives, organization, and public economics: papers in honour of Sir James Mirrlees, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN  9780199242290
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), "Irrelevant alternatives", in Basu, Kaushik; Kanbur, Ravi (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 231–249, ISBN  9780199239115
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), "Social choice theory and the informational basis approach", in Morris, Christopher W. (ed.), Amartya Sen, New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 115, ISBN  9780521852913

Journal articles

1971–1980

• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Goodin, Robert E. (September 1975). "The ethical voter". The American Political Science Review. 69 (3): 926–928. doi: 10.2307/1958406. JSTOR  1958406. S2CID  146590861.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1977). "Voting over income tax schedules". Journal of Public Economics. 8 (3): 329–340. doi: 10.1016/0047-2727(77)90005-6.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (March 1979). "Welfare considerations of nonlinear pricing". The Economic Journal. 89 (353): 66–83. doi: 10.2307/2231407. JSTOR  2231407.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Possibility theorems with interpersonally comparable welfare levels". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 409–420. doi: 10.2307/2297001. JSTOR  2297001.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Interpersonal comparability and social choice theory". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 421–439. doi: 10.2307/2297002. JSTOR  2297002.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Social choice theory: the single-profile and multi-profile approaches". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 441–50. doi: 10.2307/2297003. JSTOR  2297003.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Neary, J. Peter (January 1980). "The theory of household behaviour under rationing" (PDF). European Economic Review. 13 (1): 25–42. doi: 10.1016/0014-2921(80)90045-8.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (April 1980). "The limit points of monopolistic competition". Journal of Economic Theory. 22 (2): 256–278. doi: 10.1016/0022-0531(80)90043-5.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (June 1980). "Price-independent welfare prescriptions". Journal of Public Economics. 13 (3): 277–297. doi: 10.1016/0047-2727(86)90007-1.

1981–1990

• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Weitzman, Martin L. (September 1981). "Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects" (PDF). Econometrica. 49 (5): 1261–1288. doi: 10.2307/1912754. hdl: 1721.1/35160. JSTOR  1912754.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (March 1982). "Desirable fiscal policies under Keynesian unemployment". Oxford Economic Papers. 34 (1). Oxford University Press: 1–22. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041537. JSTOR  2662737.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (February 1983). "Social choice rules and real-valued representations". Journal of Economic Theory. 29 (1): 72–94. doi: 10.1016/0022-0531(83)90123-0.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Guesnerie, Roger (January 1984). "Effective policy tools and quantity controls" (PDF). Econometrica. 52 (1): 59–86. doi: 10.2307/1911461. JSTOR  1911461.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (April 1984). "The theoretical limits to redistribution". Review of Economic Studies. 51 (2): 177–195. CiteSeerX  10.1.1.159.9418. doi: 10.2307/2297686. JSTOR  2297686.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (June 1985). "Cartel behaviour and adverse selection". Journal of Industrial Economics. 33 (4): 401–413. doi: 10.2307/2098383. JSTOR  2098383.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Guesnerie, Roger (February–March 1987). "Minimum wage legislation as a second best policy". European Economic Review. 31 (1–2): 490–498. doi: 10.1016/0014-2921(87)90067-5.

1991–2000

• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1996). "Objective interpersonal comparisons of utility". Social Choice and Welfare. 14 (1): 79–96. doi: 10.1007/s003550050053. S2CID  154546248.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (August 1999). "Rationality and the LeChatelier principle". Journal of Economic Theory. 87 (2): 416–428. doi: 10.1006/jeth.1999.2544.

2001–2010

• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (October 2007). "Condorcet cycles? A model of intertemporal voting". Social Choice and Welfare. 29 (3): 383–404. CiteSeerX  10.1.1.217.5435. doi: 10.1007/s00355-006-0211-2. S2CID  3848976.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (November 2007). "The participant's curse and the perception of unequal treatment". Economics Letters. 97 (2): 162–169. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.037.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (November 2007). "Wage and employment determination through non-cooperative bargaining". Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 54 (5): 699–720. CiteSeerX  10.1.1.149.8157. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00437.x. S2CID  6881186.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Maskin, Eric S. (May 2008). "On the fundamental theorems of general equilibrium". Economic Theory. 35 (2): 233–240. CiteSeerX  10.1.1.149.5367. doi: 10.1007/s00199-007-0233-8. S2CID  16340673.

Papers

• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Weitzman, Martin L. (1979). Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects (issue 234 of working paper). Massachusetts: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC  5012947.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Grodal, Birgit; Hahn, F.; Hildenbrand, W.; Polemarchakis, H. (1994). General equilibrium 40th anniversary conference: held at CORE on 3-5 June 1993 (discussion paper). Vol. 9482. Louvain: CORE - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Lopuvain. OCLC  258562027.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1999). Dynamic voting in clubs (Discussion paper). London: London School of Economics and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. OCLC  154666869.
• Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo (2002). Does competition solve the hold-up problem? (Discussion paper). London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. OCLC  50900485.

References

External links

• Profile: Kevin Roberts Department of Economics, University of Oxford
• Profile: Kevin Roberts Nuffield College, University of Oxford