Kevin W. S. Roberts

British economist

Kevin W. S. Roberts FBA
Nationality	British

Academic career
Institution	Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Field	Microeconomic theory, welfare economics and social choice theory
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Essex
Academic advisors	James Mirrlees
Doctoral students	Daron Acemoglu, Thomas Piketty, Jan Eeckhout^[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Notes
Thesis Welfare theoretic social choice. (1977)

Kevin W. S. Roberts^[2] FBA was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2020.

He was a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society.^[3]

Education

Kevin Roberts gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1977.^[4]^[5]

Fellowships

1987 Econometric Society.^[6]
2007 British Academy.^[7]
Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College.^[8]

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1979), "The characterization of implementable choice rules", in Laffont, Jean-Jacques (ed.), 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 (ed.), 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 (eds.), 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. (eds.), 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. (eds.), 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 (eds.), 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 (eds.), Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima, vol. 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 (eds.), 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 (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 231–249, ISBN 9780199239115
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), "Social choice theory and the informational basis approach", in Morris, Christopher W. (ed.), Amartya Sen, New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 115, ISBN 9780521852913

Journal articles

1971–1980

Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Goodin, Robert E. (September 1975). "The ethical voter". The American Political Science Review. 69 (3): 926–928. doi:10.2307/1958406. JSTOR 1958406. S2CID 146590861.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1977). "Voting over income tax schedules". Journal of Public Economics. 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. 89 (353): 66–83. doi:10.2307/2231407. JSTOR 2231407.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Possibility theorems with interpersonally comparable welfare levels". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 409–420. doi:10.2307/2297001. JSTOR 2297001.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Interpersonal comparability and social choice theory". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 421–439. doi:10.2307/2297002. JSTOR 2297002.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1980). "Social choice theory: the single-profile and multi-profile approaches". The Review of Economic Studies. 47 (2): 441–50. doi:10.2307/2297003. JSTOR 2297003.
Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Neary, J. Peter (January 1980). "The theory of household behaviour under rationing" (PDF). European Economic Review. 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. 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. 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" (PDF). Econometrica. 49 (5): 1261–1288. doi:10.2307/1912754. hdl:1721.1/35160. JSTOR 1912754.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (March 1982). "Desirable fiscal policies under Keynesian unemployment". Oxford Economic Papers. 34 (1). Oxford University Press: 1–22. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041537. JSTOR 2662737.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (February 1983). "Social choice rules and real-valued representations". Journal of Economic Theory. 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" (PDF). Econometrica. 52 (1): 59–86. doi:10.2307/1911461. JSTOR 1911461.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (April 1984). "The theoretical limits to redistribution". Review of Economic Studies. 51 (2): 177–195. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.159.9418. doi:10.2307/2297686. JSTOR 2297686.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (June 1985). "Cartel behaviour and adverse selection". Journal of Industrial Economics. 33 (4): 401–413. doi:10.2307/2098383. JSTOR 2098383.
Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Guesnerie, Roger (February–March 1987). "Minimum wage legislation as a second best policy". European Economic Review. 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. 14 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1007/s003550050053. S2CID 154546248.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (August 1999). "Rationality and the LeChatelier principle". Journal of Economic Theory. 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. 29 (3): 383–404. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.217.5435. doi:10.1007/s00355-006-0211-2. S2CID 3848976.
Roberts, Kevin W.S. (November 2007). "The participant's curse and the perception of unequal treatment". Economics Letters. 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. 54 (5): 699–720. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.149.8157. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00437.x. S2CID 6881186.
Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Maskin, Eric S. (May 2008). "On the fundamental theorems of general equilibrium". Economic Theory. 35 (2): 233–240. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.149.5367. doi:10.1007/s00199-007-0233-8. S2CID 16340673.

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; Hahn, F.; Hildenbrand, W.; Polemarchakis, H. (1994). General equilibrium 40th anniversary conference: held at CORE on 3-5 June 1993 (discussion paper). Vol. 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.

References

^ Eeckhout, Jan (1998). Perfect matching and search in economic models (phd).
^ "VIAF". Roberts, Kevin W.S. Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ Morris, Christopher W. (2009), "Contributors", in Morris, Christopher W. (ed.), Amartya Sen, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii, ISBN 9780521618069
^ "Kevin Roberts, Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics". Department of Economics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1977). Welfare theoretic social choice (D.Phil. thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43126191.
^ "Fellows of the Econometric Society as of May 2014". The Econometric Society. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ "British Academy Fellows, ROBERTS, Professor Kevin". British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ "Governing Body". Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2014.