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 Nir Vulkan 

Courses

MBA Managerial Economics.
MBA Economics of the Internet.

Expertise

Game theory.
Information economics.
Automated trading and negotiation.
Electronic commerce. 

Overview

Nir Vulkan is the author of The Economics of E-Commerce, which was recently published by Princeton University Press.

After taking a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Nir Vulkan worked as a research fellow at Northwestern University and then completed a PhD in Economics at University College, London in 1997. He was a lecturer at Bristol University until 2001 when he joined Saïd Business School.

Books:


Vulkan, N.,
The Economics of E-Commerce: A Strategic Guide to Understanding and Designing the Online Marketplace, Princeton University Press, 2003.

Book chapters:


Vulkan, N., 'Automated e-commerce', New Economy Handbook, Academic Press, 2002.

Journal articles:


“Monopolistic Speculator Profits with Free Entry”, with Alan Morrison, Economics Letters, Volume 89, Issue 1, October 2005, Pages 31-38.

Vulkan, N., & Priest, C., 'Automated Trading in Agents-based Markets for Communication Bandwidth', forthcoming International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2004.

Hurkens, S., & Vulkan, N., 'Free Entry does not Imply Zero Profits', forthcoming Economic Letters, 2004.

Scaramozzino, P., & Vulkan, N., 'Uncertainty and Endogenous Selection of Macroeconomics Equilibrium', forthcoming Metroeconomica, 2004.

Vulkan, N., 'Strategic design of mobile agents', The Artificial Intelligence Magazine, 2002.

Vulkan, N., 'Equilibria for Automated Negotiations', Games and Economic Behavior, Vol.35:1/2, 2001, pp.339-348.

Vulkan, N., & Hurkens, S., 'Information Acquisition and Entry', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.44:4, 2001, pp.467-479.

Vulkan, N. et al., 'A multidisciplinary perspective on multi-agent systems', Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol.15:3, 2000, pp.293-301.

Vulkan, N., 'An economist's perspective on probability matching', Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol.14:1, 2000, pp.101-118.

Vulkan, N., 'Efficient mechanism for service allocation in multiagent systems', Decision Support Systems, Vol.28:1-2, 2000, pp.5-19.

Vulkan, N., 'Agents in E-Commerce', Wirtschaftspolitische Blatter, Vol.5, 1999, pp.467-473.

Vulkan, N, & Binmore, K., 'Applying game theory to automated negotiation', Netonomics, Vol.1, 1999, pp.1-10.

Vulkan, N., 'Economic implications of agent technology and e-commerce', The Economic Journal, Vol.109:453, 1999, pp.67-90.

Working papers:


Bargaining with Deadlines, with Tuomas Sandholm, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Orlando, FL. Pdf version.

E-Commerce, Mass Customisation and Price Discrimination, with David Ulph. Pdf version.

Electronic Commerce and Competitive First-Degree Price Discriminators, with David Ulph. Pdf version.

Endogenous Private Information Structures, with Sjaak Hurkens. Postscript version.

Have your agent call mine: A survey of Software agents, Internet application, and marketing with Amit Pazgal, Proceedings of the First conference on "Marketing Science and the Internet", MIT, March 1998.

Making Money out of Publicly Available Information, with Alan Morrison, Pdf version.

Markets versus Negotiations: An Experimental Investigation, with Zvika Neeman and Tamar Kugler. Pdf version.

Markets versus Negotiations: the Predominance of Centralized Markets, with Zvika Neeman. Pdf version.

Noisy Implementation Cycles, with Pasquale Scaramozzino. 

Contact Details

Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
UK

Nir.Vulkan@sbs.ox.ac.uk 

+44 (0)1865 288929