Dr. Randy Silvers

Present Position: Lecturer in Economics

Phone: +61 +3 925 17376
Email: sirandol@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications:
BA Stanford, MA UC San Diego, PhD Ariz St Univ

Commenced at Deakin: 2002

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research Interests:

Economics of Contracts
Contract Theory
Game Theory
Industrial Organization
Philosophy and Economics

Publication Highlights

"Informed Principal, Moral Hazard, and the Value of a More Informative Technology." with Hector Chade, Arizona State University. Economics Letters 74 (2002) 291-300.

Current research projects

"The Value of Symmetric Information in an Agency Model with Moral Hazard: The Ex Post Contracting Case" revise-resubmit to Games and Economic Behavior in November 2006.
"Scientific and Religious Mindsets: A Candid Look at the Perils of a Panglossian President," submitted to The Journal of Political Philosophy in June 2008.
"The Value of Symmetric Information in an Agency Model with Moral Hazard: The Ex Ante Contracting Case" expected submission to Games and Economic Behavior in June 2008.
"The Value of Information in an Agency Model with Moral Hazard " expected submission to Rand Journal of Economics in July 2008.
Dynamic Contracting and Project Selection with Hector Chade, Arizona State University
Envy and Spite with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin & Marshall College
On the Optimality of Revenge and Forgiveness
Contract Monotonicity and Incomplete Information

Research Awards

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in the College of Business, 1999, Arizona State University.

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

Econometric Society

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin

Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, and Managerial Economics.
Units taught: Microeconomic Principles, The Global Economy, Competition and Industry, Managerial Economics, Economic Strategy for Business, Advanced Economic Theory