Tomas Sjöström

James Cullen Chair in Economics

Professor of Economics

Game Theory, International Relations, Neuroeconomics

New Jersey Hall 301C

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Tomas Sjöström is the James Cullen Chair in Economics.  He did his undergraduate studies in Stockholm and received a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1991. He taught at Harvard and Penn State before moving to Rutgers in 2004. He is associate member of the economics Nobel prize committee.  His early work was on the topic of Mechanism Design, the mathematical analysis of social institutions. Currently, he is asking "Why is there war rather than peace" and "How does the brain work"?

Selected Publications

• “The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict” with S. Baliga (American Economic Review, 2012)
  
  
• “Intuition and Deliberation: Two Systems for Strategizing in the Brain” with W.J. Kuo, Y.P. Chen, Y.H. Wang and C.Y. Huang (Science, 2009)
  
  
• "Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation" with S. Baliga (Journal of Political Economy, 2008)
  
  
• "Is Grameen Lending Efficient? Repayment Incentives and Insurance in Village Economies" with A. Rai (Review of Economic Studies, 2004)
  
  
• “On the Convergence of Fictitious Play” with V. Krishna (Mathematics of Operations Research, 1998)
  
  
• “Decentralization and Collusion” with S. Baliga (Journal of Economic Theory, 1998)