Prof. David Wettstein

	Office Address:	Department of Economics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
	Tel:	+972-8-647-2291
	Fax:	+972-8-647-2941
	E-Mail:	wettstn@bgu.ac.il

Research Interests | Scientific Publications | Conferences Participation | Seminars

Research Interests

• The construction and implementation of new cooperative solution concepts in economic environments, optimal auction design, cost sharing.

Scientific Publications

• A. Postlewaite and D. Wettstein - 1989
  Feasible and Continuous Implementation, Review of Economic Studies, 56, 603-611. [PDF]

• D. Wettstein - 1990
  Continuous Implementation of Constrained Rational Expectations Equilibria, Journal of Economic Theory, 52, 208-222.

• D. Wettstein - 1992
  Continuous Implementation in Economies with Incomplete Information, Games and Economic Behavior, 4, 463-483.

• I. Luski and D. Wettstein - 1994
  The Provision of Public Goods via Advertising: Existence of Equilibria and Welfare Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, 54, 309-321. [PDF]

• D. Wettstein - 1994
  Allocation of Resources in a Divisionalized Firm Mathematical Social Sciences, 28, 51-58. [PDF]

• D. Wettstein - 1995
  Incentives and Competitive Allocations in Economies with Incomplete Markets, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 24, 201-216. [PDF]

• E. Einy and D. Wettstein - 1996
  Equivalence of the Core and Bargaining Sets in Simple Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 25, 65-72.

• E. Einy and D. Wettstein - 1999
  A Non-Cooperative Interpretation of Bargaining Sets, Review of Economic Design, 4, 219-230.[PDF]

• T. Kaplan and D. Wettstein - 1999
  Cost Sharing: Efficiency and Implementation, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 32, 489-502.[PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2000
  Implementation of bargaining sets via Simple Mechanisms, Games and Economic Behavior, 31, 106-120.[PDF]

• T. Kaplan and D. Wettstein - 2000
  The Possibility of Mixed-Strategy Equilibria with Constant-Returns-to-Scale Technology under Bertrand Competition, Spanish Economic Review, 2, 65-71.[PDF]

• Kaplan and D. Wettstein - 2000
  Surplus Sharing with a Two Stage Mechanism, International Economic Review, 41 399-409.[PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2001
  Bidding for the Surplus: A Non Cooperative Interpretation of the Shapley Value, Journal of Economic Theory, 100, 274-294.[PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2002
  Choosing Wisely: A Multibidding Approach, The American Economic Review, 92, 1577-1587. [PDF]

• T. Kaplan, I. Luski, A. Sela and D. Wettstein - 2002
  All-Pay Auctions with Variable Rewards The Journal of Industrial Economics, 50, 417-430. [PDF]

• T. Kaplan, I. Luski and D. Wettstein - 2003
  Government Policy towards Multi-National Corporations, Economics Bulletin, 6, 1-8. [PDF]

• T. Kaplan, I. Luski and D. Wettstein - 2003
  Innovative Activity and Sunk Costs, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21, 1111-1133. [PDF]

• I. Luski and D. Wettstein - 2004
  Optimal Patent Policy in a Dynamic Model of Innovation, Problems and Perspectives in Management, 1, pp. 31-43.

• S. Mutuswami, D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2004
  Bidding for the Surplus: Realizing Efficient Outcomes in Economic Environments, Games and Economic Behavior, 48, pp. 111-123. [PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2005
  Forming Efficient Networks, Economics Letters, 87, 83-87. [PDF]

• A. Preminger and D. Wettstein - 2005
  Using the Penalized Likelihood Method for Model Selection with Nuisance Parameters Present only under the Alternative: An Application to Switching Regression Models, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 26(5), 715-741. [PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2005
  Implementation of the Ordinal Shapley Value for a three-agent Economy, Economics Bulletin, Vol 3, No. 48, 1-8. [PDF]

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2006
  An Ordinal Shapley Value for Economic Environments, Journal of Economic Theory, 127, 296-308. [PDF]

• A. Preminger, U. Ben-Zion and D. Wettstein - 2006
  Extended Switching Regression Models with Time Varying Probabilities for Combining Forecasts, European Journal of Finance, 12, 455-472. [PDF]

• T. R. Kaplan and D.Wettstein - 2006
  Caps on Political Lobbying: Comment, American Economic Review, 96, 1351-1354. [PDF]

• I. Macho-Stadler, D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2006
  Efficient Bidding with Externalities, Games and Economic Behavior, 57, 304-320. [PDF]

• I. Macho-Stadler, D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2007
  Sharing the Surplus: An Extension of the Shapley Value for Environments with Externalities, Journal of Economic Theory, 135, 339-356. [PDF]

• A. Preminger, U. Ben-Zion and D. Wettstein - 2007
  Extended Switching Regression Models: Allowing for Multiple Latent State Variables, Journal of Forecasting, 26 457-473. [PDF]

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein - 2009
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach, Economic Theory, 39, 307-330. [PDF]

• I. Macho-Stadler, D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein - 2010
  Dividends and Weighted Values in Games with Externalities, International Journal of Game Theory, 39, 177–184. [PDF]

• G. de Clippel, D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein
  Egalitarian Equivalence under Asymmetric Information, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. [PDF]

Conferences Participation

• D. Pérez-Castrillo, I. Macho-Stadler and D. Wettstein, 2006
  Efficient Bidding with Externalities
  The XI Coalition Theory Workshop, Warwick, UK.

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2006
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach
  Annual Conference of the Israeli Mathematical Union in Neve Ilan, Israel.

• D. Pérez-Castrillo, I. Macho-Stadler and D. Wettstein, 2006
  Sharing the Surplus: A Just and Efficient Proposal for Environments with Externalities
  21^st Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Vienna, Austria.

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2006
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach
  61^st European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Vienna, Austria.

• P. Borm, Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2007
  Multilateral Bargaining over Coalitional Externalities
  Third Spain Italy Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (SING 3), Madrid, Spain.

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2007
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach
  Third Spain Italy Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (SING 3), Madrid, Spain.

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2007
  Bidding with Coalitional Externalities: A Strategic Approach to Partition Function Form Games
  European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Budapest, Hungary.

• P. Borm, Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2008
  Multilateral Bargaining over Coalitional Externalities
  Workshop on Implementation of Cooperative Solution Concepts , The Nash Program, In Honor of John Nash on Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A. .

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2008
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach
  Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. .

• Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2008
  Implementing Cooperative Solution Concepts: A Generalized Bidding Approach
  Arne Ryde Symposium “Mechanism Design: Properties of Allocation Mechanisms and Voting Rules,” Lund, Sweden.

• D. Wettstein, 2009
  Implementation of Cooperative Solution Concepts (plenary talk)
  The fifth Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (SING 5), Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• D. Pérez-Castrillo, I. Macho-Stadler and D. Wettstein, 2009
  Dividends and Weighted Values in Games with Externalities
  2009 Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, Japan.

• D. Pérez-Castrillo, I. Macho-Stadler and D. Wettstein, 2009
  Dividends and Weighted Values in Games with Externalities
  The European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meeting (EEA-ESEM)), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain.

• P. Borm, Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2010
  Coalitional Externalities, Strategic Bargaining and Efficient Values
  2010 World Congress of the Econometric Society, Shanghai, China.

• P. Borm, Y. Ju and D. Wettstein, 2010
  Coalitional Externalities, Strategic Bargaining and Efficient Values
  Inaugural Conference of the Chinese Game Theory and Experimental Economics Association, Beijing, China.

• D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein, 2011
  Innovation Contests
  22^nd International Conference on Game Theory in Stony Brook, USA.

Seminars at Universities and Institutions

Presented seminars at:

• A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA
• University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA
• University of California in Santa Barbara, California, USA
• University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada
• Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA
• Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
• Tel-Aviv University in Tel-Aviv, Israel
• The Technion in Haifa, Israel
• The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel
• Autonoma University in Barcelona,Spain
• Complutenese University in Madrid, Spain
• The University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Keele University in Keele, Staffordshire, UK
• Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel
• Univesity of Haifa, Israel
• McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Tilburg University in Tilburg, Netherlands
• Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, USA
• CORE Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• Catholic University Leuven in Leuven, Belgium
• Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain
• University of Vigo in Vigo, Spain
• York University, York, UK
• Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands