John KH Quah
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Professor of Economic Theory
College or Institution: St Hugh’s College
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Research Interests
Summary: Consumer Demand, General Equilibrium, Comparative Statics, Supermodular Games
There are two broad themes in my research. Firstly, I am interested in the structure of consumer and market demand, especially in its relationship with general equilibrium. It is well known that consumer demand, if it is derived from the standard assumption of utility maximization, has certain structural properties; I am interested in whether these properties are also present in the demand of a market consisting of many heterogeneous consumers. A second area of research is in monotone comparative statics. Comparative statics results are ubiquitous in economic theory - they appear in many different settings and take different for The objective of my research is to find the common mathematical structures underlying these results, to extend them, and to apply them in areas like game theory and financial economics.
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Recent Working Papers
- Discounting, Patience, and Dynamic Decision Making (2011)
- Revealed Preference Tests of the Cournot Model (2010)
- Aggregating the single crossing property: theory and applications to comparative statics and Bayesian games (2010)
- A Nonparametric Analysis of the Cournot Model (2009)
- Emissions Trading with Profit-Neutral Permit Allocations (2008)
- Comparative Statics, Informativeness, and the Interval Dominance Order (2007)
- Emissions Trading and Profit-Neutral Grandfathering (2006)
- Comparative Statics with Concave and Supermodular Functions (2004)
- The existence of equilibrium when excess demand obeys the weak axiom (2004)
- The Aggregate Weak Axiom in a Financial Economy through Dominant Substitution Effects (2004)
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