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Yossi Feinberg

Yossi Feinberg
Professor, Economics
Contact Info
YossiFeinberg
John G. McCoy - Banc One Corporation Professor of Economics
Faculty Director, Stanford Ignite
Director of the Corporate Entrepreneur: Driving Innovation and New Ventures Executive Program
Academic Area: 
Economics

Research Statement

Yossi Feinberg’s research centers on the analysis of information in strategic decision making. He works on the modeling of costly decision making, reasoning about unawareness, dynamic interactive decisions, reasoning about high order uncertainties, and more. Some of his work includes a method for the novice to test a potential experts who claim to be informed of some uncertain future events, a study on how uncertainties about others’ uncertainties can lead to delay in bargaining and the modeling of strategic communication.

Bio

Yossi Feinberg received his PhD in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1997. His thesis studied how differing prior beliefs of decision makers can be expressed by their disagreement on current (posterior) events. After completing his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Robert J. Aumann, Yossi began teaching economics at Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Yossi joined Stanford GSB in 1998.

Yossi’s teaching interests include Economics of Organization, Managerial Economics, Strategy, Information Markets, Game Theory and Applied Decision Making. In 2003 he received the MBA distinguished teaching award.

Yossi’s recent research interests include, for example, the analysis and implication of strategic decision making in the face of unawareness. He has modeled games with unawareness and their solutions. In these games each decision maker can reason about the extent to which others may only have a limited perception of the full scale of the economic interaction at hand. Yossi was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and is serving as a referee for all major microeconomics journals. He has given numerous invited seminars as well as multiple plenary talks at academic conferences.

He has been consulting in a wide range of industries including hi-tech, media and healthcare as well as giving invited talks on topics such as pricing, the sub-prime crisis, in-house vs. outsourcing, allocating decision power in organizations and strategic interactions.

He is the faculty director of Stanford Ignite, a global innovation program running on the Stanford Campus, and led its expansion to Bangalore, Beijing, Paris and Santiago.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997
  • MSc, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996
  • BSc, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991

Academic Appointments

  • At Stanford University since 1998
  • Assistant Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, 1996-1998

Awards and Honors

  • Distinguished Teaching Award, MBA, Stanford GSB, 2003

Publications

Journal Articles

Yossi Feinberg, Nicolas S. Lambert. International Journal of Game Theory. 2014.
Yossi Feinberg, Colin Steward. Econometrica. May 2008, Vol. 76, Issue 3, Pages 561-582.
Yossi Feinberg, Eddie Dekel. The Review of Economic Studies . October 2006, Vol. 73, Issue 4, Pages 893-906.
Yossi Feinberg. Games and Economic Behavior. July 2005, Vol. 52, Issue 1, Pages 54-93.
Yossi Feinberg. Games and Economic Behavior. July 2005, Vol. 52, Issue 1, Pages 94-132.
Yossi Feinberg, Andrzej Skrzypacz. Econometrica. December 2004, Vol. 73, Issue 1, Pages 69-91.

Book Chapters

Yossi Feinberg. New Perspectives on Games and Interaction. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, Pages 105-119.

Working Papers

Games with Unawareness | PDF
Yossi Feinberg2012
Ranking Friends | PDF
Yossi Feinberg, Willemein Kets2012
Games with Incomplete Awareness | PDF
Yossi Feinberg2005
A True Expert Knows which Question Should be Asked | PDF
Yossi Feinberg, Eddie Dekel2004

Courses Taught

Degree Courses

2015-16

This is an advanced applications economics course that applies recent innovations and high-powered tools to organization and general management. MBA1 students must have a strong background in microeconomics to take the course and should consult...

This is an advanced game theory course and requires a basic background in game theory or an advanced applied game theory course. The course covers foundational topics such as type spaces, modeling reasoning and rationality, game forms, solution...

2014-15

This is an advanced applications economics course that applies recent innovations and high-powered tools to organization and general management. MBA1 students must have a strong background in microeconomics to take the course and should consult...

This is an advanced game theory course and requires a basic background in game theory or an advanced applied game theory course. The course covers foundational topics such as type spaces, modeling reasoning and rationality, game forms, solution...

2013-14

This is an advanced applications economics course that applies recent innovations and high-powered tools to organization and general management. MBA1 students must have a strong background in microeconomics to take the course and should consult...

This is an advanced game theory course and requires a basic background in game theory or an advanced applied game theory course. The course covers foundational topics such as type spaces, modeling reasoning and rationality, game forms, solution...

Programs and Non-Degree Courses

Stanford University Affiliations

Stanford GSB

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