Department
of Econometrics and OR
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Dr Harold (H.E.D.)
Houba
Department of Econometrics School of Business and Economics De
Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV
Amsterdam The
Netherlands Tel:
+31 20 598 6014, Fax:
+31 20 598 6020 Office:
10A-53 (tenth floor, main building) Visitors
cannot access my office directly. Instead, you first have to go to the
entrance of our department, near lecture room 10A-37, then call me +31 20 598
6014 to open the door My most
favourite proposition by Pythagoras: To multiply happiness, divide it
Who is Harold
Houba? Curriculum Vitae
Books and Monograms
Articles
Book Reviews
Recent Working Papers
Popular Publications
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Who is
Harold Houba?
Personal information
Harold Houba is associate professor of
Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics and OR. He obtained his PhD
at Tilburg University in 1994. Since 1992 Harold has been affiliated with the
department of Econometrics and OR for most of the time with some exceptions.
Autumn 1992, he was an Exchange Visitor at the Economics Department of Harvard
University on the invitation of Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin. And 2001 marked a four year window when he was
affiliated with the Centre for World Food Studies. Harold is active as the
coordinator of the SBE
honour programme.
Research
Harold Houba has a broad research interest
focused around economic applications of Game Theory. Sometimes, this requires
addressing deep methodological issues and making methodological contributions.
Among his major research themes are methods in Bargaining Theory, Market Power
and Economic Policy, International Environmental Agreements with applications
to cooperation and conflict in the Mekong River basin and the water economics
of international rivers. Within a one-year time window, he managed to publish
book chapters in a prestigious volume for practioners
of Competition Policy and the prestigious Handbook of Water Economics. In 2014,
he co-organized the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference:
70
Years Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Teaching
Harold has very broad teaching experiences
on many topics in Economic Theory such as Auction Theory, Bargaining Theory,
Differential Games, Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, Microeconomics,
Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics,
Neuroeconomics and Behavioural Game Theory. Students evaluate his courses well
and often say to be inspired by Harold’s enthusiasm. Courses taught are at the
bachelor and master level, and include courses for the Philosophy, Politics and
Economics programme at the Vrije Universiteit, the Tinbergen Institute and the
former Netherlands Network for Economics (NAKE).
Miscellaneous
Sommige opiniestukken van rond de millennium
wisseling zijn nog steeds actueel in overspannen huizenmarkten, zie o.a. Veilen
van huizen is beste methode (Forum, Volkskrant, 9 maart 1999). Meer links
zijn te vinden aan het einde van deze pagina. Leer meer over de persoon achter
deze website: De docent vertelt
Curriculum Vitae
PhD
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December
1994 |
PhD. Thesis titled Game Theoretic Models of
Bargaining, defended at the University of Tilburg in 1994. Supervisors were Prof.Dr. Aart de Zeeuw and Prof.dr.ir. Gerard van der Laan. Besides
the supervisors, the defence committee consisted of
Prof.Dr. Eric van Damme, Prof.Dr.
Joseph Plasmans, Prof.Dr.
Stef Tijs and foreign guest member Prof.Dr.
E.S. Maskin (Nobel laureate in Economics 2007). |
Affiliations
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April 2020 – Present |
Associate
Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Economics, School of
Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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August 2007 – April 2020 |
Associate
Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics, School of
Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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March 2005 – August 2007 |
Assistant
Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics, School of
Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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July 2001 – February 2005 |
Senior
Researcher affiliated to the Centre for World Food Studies (SOW-VU) at the
School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Active with
conducting applied and multi-disciplinary research projects for river basin
management. |
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January 1992 - June 2001 |
Assistant
Professor of Economic Theory at the Department of Econometrics, School of
Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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Autumn 1992 |
Exchange
Visitor at the Economics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, on the invitation of Prof.Dr.
E.S. Maskin. |
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May 1989 - December 1991 |
PhD
student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University
of Tilburg. |
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September 1987 - December 1988 |
Teaching
Assistant at the Department of Econometrics and OR, Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration, University of Tilburg. |
Memberships
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2006 – present |
Associate
Editor of E-conomics (The Open-Access,
Open-Assessment E-Journal). |
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2000 - present |
Research
fellow Tinbergen Institute. Co-organizer of the
9th Tinbergen Institute Conference in 2014: |
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1997 - 2008 |
Fellow
Netherlands Network for Economics (NAKE) |
Books and
Monograms
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, PhD thesis, Tilburg
University.
Articles
Recent publications and working papers are
open-access and free to download and can be found at publications
at PURE portal of the Vrije Universiteit, to access publications that are
unavailable contact one of the authors
1.
Harold Houba
and Françeska Tomori, 2023, Stackelberg Social Equilibrium in Water Markets, Games
14(4), 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/g14040054
2.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Hui Wang, 2023, Endogenous personalized pricing
in the Hotelling model, Economics Letters 225,
111037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111037
3.
P.
Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2022, Costless Delay in Negotiations, Economic
Theory 74, 69–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-021-01373-6
4.
Harold Houba, Duozhe Li and Quan Wen, 2022, Bargaining with Costly
Competition for the Proposing Right. Journal of Mathematical Economics 98,
102558, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102558 (Article
available upon request.)
5.
Harold
Houba, Yukihiko Funaki and Evgenia Motchenkova, 2020, Market Power in Bilateral
Oligopoly Markets with Nonexpandable Infrastructures.
International Journal of Game Theory 49, 525-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-019-00695-z
6.
Aaron Kamm
and Harold Houba, 2019, A Bargaining Experiment with Asymmetric Institutions
and Preferences, Social Choice and
Welfare 52, 329-351.
7.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen,
2018, Legal
Principles in Antitrust Enforcement, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 859-893.
8.
Harold
Houba, Roland Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2017, Pareto
Efficiency in the Jungle, Review of
Economic Design 21, 153–161.
9.
P.
Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2016, The Condorcet
Paradox Revisited, Social Choice and
Welfare 47, 141-186.
10.
Erik Ansink
and Harold Houba, 2016, Sustainable
Agreements on Stochastic River Flow, Resource and Energy Economics 44, 92-117.
11.
Harold
Houba, Gerard van der Laan and Yuyu Zeng, 2015,
International Environmental Agreements for River Sharing Problems, Environmental and Resource Economics 62, 855-872.
12.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen,
2015, The Effects of Leniency on Cartel Pricing, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
15, 351-390.
13.
Harold
Houba, Gerard van der Laan and Yuyu Zeng, 2014,
Asymmetric Nash Solutions in the River Sharing Problem, Strategic Behavior and the Environment 4, 321-360.
14.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2014, Backward induction and unacceptable
offers, Journal of Mathematical Economics
54, 151-156.
15. Harold Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do and Xueqin Zhu, 2013, Saving a river: a joint management approach to the Mekong River Basin, Environment and Development Economics 18, 93-103.
16. Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2012, Market power in water markets, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 64, p.237-252.
17. Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2012, Competitive prices as profit-maximizing cartel prices, Economics Letters 114, p.39-42.
18.
Harold Houba
and Quan Wen, 2011, Extreme equilibria in the negotiation model with different
time preferences, Games and Economic
Behavior 73, p.507–516.
19.
Harold Houba, Dinard van der Laan and Dirk Veldhuizen, 2011, Endogenous
entry in lowest-unique sealed-bid auctions, Theory and Decision 71, p.269-295.
20.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen,
2010, Antitrust enforcement with price-dependent fines and detection
probabilities, Economics Bulletin 30, p.2017-2027.
21.
Harold Houba, 2008, Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in
Bilateral River Basin Management , International
Game Theory Review 10, p.257-278.
22.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2008, On Striking for a Bargain between Two
Completely Informed Agents. Economic Theory
37, p.509-519.
23.
Harold Houba, 2008, On Continuous-Time Markov Processes in Bargaining. Economics Letters 100, p.280-283.
24.
Harold Houba, 2007, Alternating Offers in Economic Environments. Economics Letters 96, p.316-324.
25.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Different Time Preferences and
Non-Stationary Contracts in Negotiations, Economics
Letters 91, p.273-279.
26.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict
with Completely Informed States. Economics
Bulletin 3, p.1-6.
27.
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.
28.
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.
29.
Xander Tieman, Gerard van der Laan and Harold Houba, 2001, Bertrand
Price Competition in a Social Environment, De
Economist 149, p.33-51.
30.
Harold Houba and Gijsbert van Lomwel, 2001, Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model
of Wage Bargaining, Economic Theory 17, p.81-99.
31.
Harold Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2000, Holdouts, Backdating and Wage
Negotiations, European Economic Review
44, p.1783-1800.
32.
Harold Houba, Koos Sneek
and Felix Várdy, 2000, Can Negotiations Prevent Fish
Wars? Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control 24, p.1265-1280.
33.
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.
34.
Harold Houba, Xander Tieman and Rene Brinksma,
1998, The Nash Bargaining Solution for Decision Weight Utility Functions, Economics Letters 60, p.41-48.
35.
Wilko Bolt and Harold Houba, 1998, Strategic Bargaining in the Variable
Threat Game, Economic Theory 11, p. 57-77.
36.
Harold Houba and Elaine Bennett, 1997, Odd Man Out: The Proposal Making
Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p.375-396.
37.
Harold Houba, 1997, The Policy Bargaining Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p.1-27.
38.
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.
39.
Harold Houba, 1993, An Alternative Proof of Uniqueness in
Non-Cooperative Bargaining, Economics
Letters 41, p. 253-256.
40.
Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 1991, Correction of the Material Balance
Equation in Dynamic Input-Output Models, European
Economic Review 35, p.1103-1108.
Book chapters
1.
Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, David Bachiochi, and
Harold Houba, 2018, Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for
Crop Yield Prediction and River Resource Planning, in: Lipper, L., McCarthy,
N., Zilberman, D., Asfaw, S. and Branca, G. (Eds.), “Climate Smart
Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change”, Natural Resource Management
and Policy 52, Springer Verlag, p.77-104.
Open access: DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5
2.
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2015, The Economics of Transboundary
River Management, in: Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe (eds.) “The Handbook of Water Economics”, Edgar Elgar Publishers,
p.434-465.
3.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2014, The Role of Legal
Principles in the Economic Analysis of Competition Policy, in: Martin Peitz and Yossi Spiegel (eds.) "Analysis of Competition Policy and Sectoral Regulation", World
Scientific, New Jersey/London/Singapore, p.389-421.
4.
Harold Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do and Xueqin
Zhu, 2013, Efficient Use of the Mekong River Basin: a Joint Management
Approach, in: Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport (eds.), 2013, "Analyzing Global Environmental Issues
Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications",
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, New York,
p.186-202.
5.
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.
Project reports
1.
Michiel Keyzer, Ben Sonneveld, Bart van den
Boom and Harold Houba, 2005, Modeling the water economy of the Jordan River
Basin. Final report for the project: ‘Regional Integration and Resource Use in
the Middle East: Oil, Water and the Need for Peace’, Marseille: Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic
Institutes.
Book Reviews
1. Abhinay Muthoo, 2001, Bargaining Theory and
Applications, in: Journal of Economic
Literature 39, p.128-130.
2. Herbert Gintis, 2001, Game Theory Evolving: A Problem Centered Introduction to Modeling
Strategic Interaction, in: The Economic
Journals Book Note.
3. Paul Klemperer (ed.), 2000, The Theory of Auctions: Volumes I and II,
in: The Economic Journals Book Notes.
Recent
Working Papers
Recent working papers are free to
download and can be found at publications
at PURE portal of the Vrije Universiteit.
Harold Houba and Roland Luttens, 2023, Equilibrium in the Jungle
Edgeworth Box. Working paper.
Franceska Tomori, Harold Houba
Brian Blankespoor, Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Harold Houba and Neil
Thomas, 2014, Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on
International River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong
Basins, TI
Discussion Paper 14-005.
Harold Houba, Kim Hang
Pham Do and Xueqin Zhu, 2014, Capacity Choice of Dams under Rivalry
Use and Externalities, TI Discussion Paper 14-143.
Harold Houba, Roland Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2013, Saving
Private Pareto. TI
Discussion Paper 13-053 (Revision of TI Discussion Paper
09-092).
Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 2009, Environmental Damage and
Price Taking Behavior by Firms and Consumers. TI Discussion Paper 09-029 and
DIW discussion paper 878, DIW, Berlin.
Popular Publications
1.
Harold
Houba, 2016, Spelen Topsporters
Nash? StatOR 17, Juli 2016, 23-25.
StatOR is een uitgave van de
Vereniging voor Statistiek en Operationele Research, voor meer informatie zie http://www.vvs-or.nl
2.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan 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.
3.
Harold Houba, 2001, Veilingtheorie als soap, Econometristen in Actie 4,
uitgave Alumni Vereniging Econometrie, Vrije Universiteit, p. 3-9.
4.
Wilko Bolt en Harold Houba, 2000, Een
lager loon met terugwerkende kracht, Economische Statistische Berichten 85,
nr. 4266, p. 622-623.
5.
Harold Houba, 2000, Het
veilen van huizen, Medium Econometrische Toepassingen 8, nr. 3, uitgave
Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, p. 4-6.
6.
Harold Houba, 2000, Veilen
UMTS-frequenties imiteert markt het beste, Forum, Volkskrant, 24 mei 2000.
7.
Harold Houba, 1999, Veilen
van huizen is beste methode, Forum, Volkskrant, 9 maart 1999.
8.
Harold Houba en Gerard 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.
9.
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, p.55-60.
Bijdragen aan:
-
Hogere Besliskunde (Intro
+ vervolg),
Toni Mudde, Wetenschapsbijlage, Volkskrant, maart 2012.
-
Een
Veiling is ook een Spel, De verdieping, Trouw, August 2000
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