Willemien Kets
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management
Schools
- Kellogg School of Management
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Biography
Kellogg School of Management
Willemien Kets joined the MEDS department at the Kellogg School of Management in 2011. Prior to joining MEDS, she was an Omidyar postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. She received her PhD in economics from Tilburg University (Netherlands), and worked as an economic policy analyst for the Dutch government prior to her PhD studies.
Her general research interests are in game theory and microeconomic theory.
Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Economics
Economic Theory
Economics of Uncertainty
Experimental Economics
Game Theory
Information Economics
Microeconomics
Education Ph.D., 2008, Economics, Tilburg University
BSc and MSc, 1999, Chemistry, Nijmegen University, Highest honors
Academic Positions Donald P. Jacobs Scholar/Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2011-present
Research Fellow, U.C. Irvine, 2010-2011
Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2008-2010
Honors and Awards Certificate of Impact Teaching Award
Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2012, one year
Education Academic Positions Honors and Awards
Videos
Williemien Ketts - “Inequality and Network Structure”
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Cases
Halpern, Joseph and Willemien Kets. 2015. Ambiguous Language and Common Priors. Games and Economic Behavior. 90: 171–180.
Standard economic models cannot capture the fact that information is often ambiguous, and is interpreted in multiple ways. Using a framework that distinguishes between the language in which statements are made and the interpretation of statements, we demonstrate that, unlike in the case where there is no ambiguity, players may come to have different beliefs starting from a common prior, even if they have received exactly the same information, unless the information is common knowledge.
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