Department of Econometrics and OR

 

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Dr Harold (H.E.D.) Houba e-mail: hhouba@feweb.vu.nl, Department of Econometrics De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 598 6014, Fax: +31 20 598 6020   Office: 1A-22 (first floor, main building)

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Harold Houba is associate professor of Economic Theory with teaching experience on several topics in Economic Theory such as Auction Theory, Bargaining Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomics and Industrial Organization. Since Spring 2009, he also teaches Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics. His major research interest is bargaining theory with applications to environmental economics, labour economics and the theory of contracts.

 

Harold Houba defended his PhD. Thesis at the University of Tilburg in 1994. The foreign guest member of the defence committee was Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin (Nobel laureate in Economics 2007).

 

Curriculum Vitae

Scientific Publications

Working Papers

 

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Curriculum Vitae

 

Affiliations

August 2007 - Present

Associate Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam.

March 2005 – August 2007

Assistant Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam.

July 2001 – February 2005

Senior researcher affiliated to the Centre for World Food Studies (SOW-VU) at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam. Acitve with conducting applied and multi-disciplinary research projects for river basin management.

1992 - June 2001

Assistant Professor of Economic Theory at the Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam.

Autumn 1992  

Exchange Visitor at the Economics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on the invitation of Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin. 

May 1989 - December 1991

PhD student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tilburg.

September 1987 - December 1988

Assistant at the Department of Econometrics and OR, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tilburg.

Memberships

2006 - present

Associate Editor of e-conomics (The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal).

2000 - present

Research fellow Tinbergen Institute.

1997                Fellow Netherlands Network for Economics (NAKE)

Scientific Publications

Books

1.      Harold Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2002, Credible Threats in Negotiations - A Game Theoretic Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

2.      Harold Houba, 1994, Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining, Ph.D thesis, Tilburg University.

1.      Harold Houba, 2008, Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in Bilateral River Basin Management , International Game Theory Review 10, 257-278.

2.      Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2008, On Striking for a Bargain between Two Completely Informed Agents. Economic Theory 37, 509-519.

3.      Harold Houba, 2008, On Continuous-Time Markov Processes in Bargaining. Economics Letters 100, 280-283.

4.      Harold Houba, 2007, Alternating Offers in Economic Environments. Economics Letters 96, 316-324.

5.      Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Different Time Preferences and Non-Stationary Contracts in Negotiations, Economics Letters 91, p. 273-279.

6.      Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States. Economics Bulletin 3, p. 1-6.

7.      Peter Albersen, Harold Houba and Michiel Keyzer, 2003, Pricing a Raindrop in a Process-Based Model: General Methodology and a Case Study of the Upper-Zambezi, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 28, p. 183-192.

8.      Harold Houba and Gerard van der Laan, 2002, One-Seller/Two-Buyer Markets with Buyer Externalities and (Im)Perfect Competition, International Game Theory Review 4, p. 141-164.

9.      Xander Tieman, Gerard van der Laan and Harold Houba, 2001, Bertrand Price Competition in a Social Environment, De Economist 149, p. 33-51.

10.  Harold Houba and Gijsbert van Lomwel, 2001, Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model of Wage Bargaining, Economic Theory 17, p. 81-99.

11.  Harold Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2000, Holdouts, Backdating and Wage Negotiations, European Economic Review 44, p. 1783-1800.

12.  Harold Houba, Koos Sneek and Felix Várdy, 2000, Can Negotiations Prevent Fish Wars? Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 24, p. 1265-1280.

13.  Xander Tieman, Harold Houba and Gerard van der Laan, 2000, Cooperation in a Multi-dimensional Local Interaction Model, Journal of Economics 71, p. 1-30.

14.  Harold Houba, Xander Tieman and Rene Brinksma, 1998, The Nash Bargaining Solution for Decision Weight Utility Functions, Economics Letters 60, p. 41-48.

15.  Wilko Bolt and Harold Houba, 1998, Strategic Bargaining in the Variable Threat Game, Economic Theory 11, p. 57-77.

16.  Harold Houba and Elaine Bennett, 1997, Odd Man Out: The Proposal Making Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p. 375-396.

17.  Harold Houba, 1997, The Policy Bargaining Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p. 1-27.

18.  Harold Houba and Aart de Zeeuw, 1995, Strategic Bargaining for the Control of a Dynamic System in State-Space Form, Group Decision and Negotiations 4, p. 71-97.

19.  Harold Houba, 1993, An Alternative Proof of Uniqueness in Non-Cooperative Bargaining, Economics Letters 41, p. 253-256.

20.  Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 1991, Correction of the Material Balance Equation in Dynamic Input-Output Models, European Economic Review 35, p. 1103-1108.

21.  Harold Houba and Aart de Zeeuw, 1991, Strategic Bargaining and Difference Games, in: "Dynamic Games in Economic Analysis, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 157", Springer Verlag, New York/Berlin, p. 68-77.

Bookreviews

1.      Abhinay Muthoo, Bargaining Theory and Applications, in: Journal of Economic Literature 39, 2001, p. 128-130.

2.      Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving: A Problem Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction, in: The Economic Journals Book Notes, 2001.

3.      Paul Klemperer (ed.), The Theory of Auctions: Volumes I and II, in: The Economic Journals Book Notes, May 2000.

Recent Working Papers

Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 2009, Environmental Damage and price Taking behavior by Firms and Consumers. TI Discussion Paper 09-029/1, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and DIW discussion paper 878, DIW, Berlin. Amsterdam.

Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2008, Maximal Cartel Pricing and Leniency Programs. TI Discussion Paper 08-120/1, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam.

Harold Houba, Dinard van der Laan and Dirk Veldhuizen, 2008, The Unique-Lowest Sealed-Bid Auction. TI Discussion Paper 08-049/1, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam.   

Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2007, Extreme Equilibria in a General Negotiation Model. TI Discussion Paper 07-070/1, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. Paper presented at the 8^th Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference, June 2007, Kos (Greece), and the 8^th Public Economic Theory Conference, July 2007, Nashville (USA).

Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Perfect Equilibria in a Negotiation Model with Different Time Preferences. TI Discussion Paper 06-028/1, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. Paper presented at the Canadian Economic Theory Meeting, May, 2006, the European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Vienna (Austria) August, 2006.

Popular Publications

1.      H. Houba, E. Motchenkova and Q. Wen, 2009, The Maximal Damage Paradigm in Antitrust Regulation: Is it Something New?, AENORM 16, gemeenschappelijke uitgave econometriestudieverenigingen Kraket/VSAE, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, p.37-41.

2.      H. Houba, 2007, Veilingtheorie als soap, Econometristen in Actie 4, nr. 2, uitgave Alumni Vereniging Econometrie, Vrije Universiteit, p.3-9.

3.      W. Bolt en H.Houba, 2000, Een lager loon met terugwerkende kracht, Economische Statistische Berichten 85, nr. 4266, p. 622-623.

4.     H. Houba, 2000, Het veilen van huizen, Medium Econometrische Toepassingen 8, nr. 3, uitgave Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, p.4-6.

5.      H. Houba, Veilen UMTS-frequenties imiteert markt het beste, Forum, Volkskrant, 24 mei 2000.

6.      H. Houba, Veilen van huizen is beste methode, Forum, Volkskrant, 9 maart 1999.

7.      H. Houba en G. van der Laan, 1998, Spelen met kostenallocaties en politieke machtsindices, in: Onzware ernst en droomrigheid, bundel bij het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Faculteit der Economische en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Lemma, Utrecht, pp. 90-96.

8.      H.Houba, 1996, Kat en muis spelletjes tijdens CAO-onderhandelingen, in: "Econometrie in Actie" (redactie H. Houba en A. Ridder), Uitgave afdeling Econometrie, Vrije Universiteit, 1996, p. 55-60.