James Bergin

Professor James Bergin joined our department as professor in June 2000. Professor Bergin has been working at Queen's University, Canada, for many years. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Professor Bergin's main research interests are game theory, economic theory and mathematical economics and he has published in numerous leading academic journals including Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Mathematical Economics.

Qualifications

• PhD - Economics (Princeton University)
• MSc - Economics (London School of Economics)
• BA (National University of Ireland)

Research Areas

• Microeconomic Theory
• Game Theory

Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews

Bergin, James / Patent policy, investment and social welfare. November 2018; In: International Journal of Industrial Organization. Vol. 61, pp. 439-458

Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan / Cooperation through imitation. November 2009; In: Games and Economic Behavior. Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 376-388

Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan / Industry dynamics with stochastic demand. September 2008; In: RAND Journal of Economics. Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 41-68

Bergin, James; Zhou, Lin / Monotonic Assignment Rules and Common Pricing. February 2006; In: Mathematics of Operations Research. Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 133-146

Bergin, James / The folk theorem revisited. February 2006; In: Economic Theory. Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 321-332

Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan / Comparative learning dynamics. May 2004; In: International Economic Review. Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 431-465

Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan / Learning from average experience. 2004; In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 2690, pp. 127-134

Bergin, James / Purification of incentive compatible allocations. November 2003; In: Economic Theory. Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 875-892

Amir, Rabah; Bergin, James; Knudsen, Thorbjørn / PREFACE TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY 2000. September 2003; In: International Game Theory Review. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. iii–iv

Bergin, James / Common knowledge with monotone statistics. September 2001; In: Econometrica. Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 1315-1332

Bergin, James; Duggan, John / An Implementation-Theoretic Approach to Non-cooperative Foundations. May 1999; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 50-76

Bergin, James / On the continuity of correspondences on sets of measures with restricted marginals. February 1999; In: Economic Theory. Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 471-481

Bergin, James; Sen, Arunava / Extensive Form Implementation in Incomplete Information Environments. June 1998; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 222-256

Bergin, James; Sen, Arunava / Implementation in generic environments. September 1996; In: Social Choice and Welfare. Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 467-478

Bergin, James; Lipman, Barton L. / Evolution with state-dependent mutations. July 1996; In: Econometrica. Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 943-956

Bergin, J.; Bernhardt, D. / Anonymous sequential games: Existence and characterization of equilibria. October 1995; In: Economic Theory. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 461-489

Bergin, James; MacLeod, W. Bentley / Efficiency and renegotiation in repeated games. October 1993; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 42-73

Bergin, James / A model of strategic behaviour in repeated games. 1992; In: Journal of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 113-153

Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan / Anonymous sequential games with aggregate uncertainty. 1992; In: Journal of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 543-562

Bergin, James / A characterization of sequential equilibrium strategies in infinitely repeated incomplete information games. February 1989; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 51-65

BERGIN, James / WE EVENTUALLY AGREE. February 1989; In: Mathematical Social Sciences. Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 57-66

Scholarly Books, Monographs, Reports and Case Studies

Bergin, James / Mathematics for Economists with Applications. December 2014;

Bergin, James / Microeconomic Theory: A Concise Course. May 2005;