Kevin W. S. Roberts’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British economist
Is Economist 
From United Kingdom 
Type Finance 
Gender male

Kevin W.S. Roberts FBA is the Sir John Hicks professor of economics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
He is a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society.

Education

Kevin Roberts gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1977.

Fellowships

  • 1987 Econometric Society.
  • 2007 British Academy.
  • Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College.
  • “Fellows of the Econometric Society as of May 2014”. The Econometric Society. Retrieved 17 July 2014. 
  • “British Academy Fellows, ROBERTS, Professor Kevin”. British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2014. 
  • “Governing Body”. Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2014. 

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1979), “The characterization of implementable choice rules”, in Laffont, Jean-Jacques, Aggregation and revelation of preferences, Amsterdam New York New York: North-Holland Publishing Co. sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland, ISBN 9780444853264 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1982), “The limit points to monopolistic competition”, in Mas-Colell, Andreu, Noncooperative approaches to the theory of perfect competition, New York: Academic Press, ISBN 9780124767508 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1985), “Cartel behaviour and asymmetric information”, in Geroski, Paul; Phlips, Louis; Ulph, Alistair, Oligopoly, competition, and welfare, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK New York, New York, USA: B. Blackwell, ISBN 9780631144793 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ““Collusion” (definition)”, in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K., The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ““Enforcement” (definition)”, in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K., The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1995), “Valued opinions or opinionated values: the double aggregation problem”, in Basu, Kaushik; Suzumura, Kotaro; Pattanaik, Prasanta, Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198287896 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo Felli (2000), “Competition and hold-ups”, in Stern, Nicholas H.; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Glennerster, Howard, Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima, 22, London: London School of Economics and Political Science, and the STICERD – Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, ISBN 9780753013991 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2000), “A reconsideration of the optimal income tax”, in Myles, Gareth D.; Hammond, Peter, Incentives, organization, and public economics: papers in honour of Sir James Mirrlees, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199242290 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), “Irrelevant alternatives”, in Basu, Kaushik; Kanbur, Ravi, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 231–249, ISBN 9780199239115 

Journal articles

1971 – 1980

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Goodin, Robert E. (September 1975). “The ethical voter”. The American Political Science Review. American Political Science Association. 69 (3): 926–928. doi:10.2307/1958406. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1977). “Voting over income tax schedules”. Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 8 (3): 329–340. doi:10.1016/0047-2727(77)90005-6. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (March 1979). “Welfare considerations of nonlinear pricing”. The Economic Journal. JSTOR. 89 (353): 66–83. doi:10.2307/2231407. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). “Possibility theorems with interpersonally comparable welfare levels”. The Review of Economic Studies. Oxford University Press. 47 (2): 409–420. doi:10.2307/2297001. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). “Interpersonal comparability and social choice theory”. The Review of Economic Studies. Oxford University Press. 47 (2): 421–439. doi:10.2307/2297002. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). “Social choice theory: the single-profile and multi-profile approaches”. The Review of Economic Studies. Oxford University Press. 47 (2): 441–50. doi:10.2307/2297003. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Neary, J. Peter (January 1980). “The theory of household behaviour under rationing”. European Economic Review. Elsevier. 13 (1): 25–42. doi:10.1016/0014-2921(80)90045-8. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (April 1980). “The limit points of monopolistic competition”. Journal of Economic Theory. Elsevier. 22 (2): 256–278. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(80)90043-5. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (June 1980). “Price-independent welfare prescriptions”. Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 13 (3): 277–297. doi:10.1016/0047-2727(86)90007-1. 

1981 – 1990

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Weitzman, Martin L. (September 1981). “Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects”. Econometrica. The Econometric Society via JSTOR. 49 (5): 1261–1288. doi:10.2307/1912754. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (March 1982). “Desirable fiscal policies under Keynesian unemployment” (PDF). Oxford Economic Papers. Oxford University Press. 34 (1): 1–22. doi:10.2307/2662737. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (February 1983). “Social choice rules and real-valued representations”. Journal of Economic Theory. Elsevier. 29 (1): 72–94. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(83)90123-0. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Guesnerie, Roger (January 1984). “Effective policy tools and quantity controls”. Econometrica. The Econometric Society via JSTOR. 52 (1): 59–86. doi:10.2307/1911461. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (April 1984). “The theoretical limits to redistribution”. Review of Economic Studies. Oxford University Press. 51 (2): 177–195. doi:10.2307/2297686. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (June 1985). “Cartel behaviour and adverse selection”. Journal of Industrial Economics, special issue – A Symposium on Oligopoly, Competition and Welfare. JSTOR. 33 (4): 401–413. doi:10.2307/2098383. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Guesnerie, Roger (February–March 1987). “Minimum wage legislation as a second best policy”. European Economic Review. Elsevier. 31 (1-2): 490–498. doi:10.1016/0014-2921(87)90067-5. 

1991 – 2000

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1996). “Objective interpersonal comparisons of utility”. Social Choice and Welfare. Springer. 14 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1007/s003550050053. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (August 1999). “Rationality and the LeChatelier principle”. Journal of Economic Theory. Elsevier. 87 (2): 416–428. doi:10.1006/jeth.1999.2544. 

2001 – 2010

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (October 2007). “Condorcet cycles? A model of intertemporal voting”. Social Choice and Welfare. Springer. 29 (3): 383–404. doi:10.1007/s00355-006-0211-2. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (November 2007). “The participant’s curse and the perception of unequal treatment”. Economics Letters. Elsevier. 97 (2): 162–169. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.037. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (November 2007). “Wage and employment determination through non-cooperative bargaining”. Scottish Journal of Political Economy. Wiley. 54 (5): 699–720. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00437.x. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Maskin, Eric S. (May 2008). “On the fundamental theorems of general equilibrium”. Economic Theory. Wiley. 35 (2): 233–240. doi:10.1007/s00199-007-0233-8. 

Papers

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Weitzman, Martin L. (1979). Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects (issue 234 of working paper). Massachusetts: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 5012947. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Grodal, Birgit; et al. (1994). General equilibrium 40th anniversary conference: held at CORE on 3-5 June 1993 (discussion paper). 9482. Louvain: CORE – Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Lopuvain. OCLC 258562027. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1999). Dynamic voting in clubs (Discussion paper). London: London School of Economics and the STICERD – Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. OCLC 154666869. 
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo (2002). Does competition solve the hold-up problem? (Discussion paper). London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. OCLC 50900485. 
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