Alexander Reffgen

Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Department of Economics
School of Economics and Management, Lund University

Alexander Reffgen

CV/Research

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Alexander Reffgen
Date of birth: February 25, 1978
Address: Department of Economics, P.O. Box 7082, 220 07 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)46 222 97 73
E-mail: alexander.reffgen@nek.lu.se

Current Position

Postdoc at the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University

Education

2006 - 2011	Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
	Doctoral Thesis: Essays on Strategy-proof Social Choice
	Completed courses in the PhD program: Theory for Individual Choice and Game Theory; General Equilibrium Theory; Information, Risk and Uncertainty; Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis; Economic Growth, Advanced Course; International Macroeconomics; Principles of Financial Economics; Public Finance; New Institutional Economics; Advanced Trade Theory; Advanced Econometrics; Econometric Theory; Time Series Analysis.
2003 - 2006	Pol.Mag. in Economics
	Master's Thesis: On the Strategy-proof Social Choice of Fixed-Sized Subsets
1999 - 2003	M.Sc. in Mathematics
	Master's Thesis: The Determinant in Finite and Infinite-Dimensional Vector Spaces

Research Interest

My current main research interest is in strategy-proof social choice theory.
A brief introduction to this field can be found here:

Reffgen, A. (2011): An Introduction to Social Choice Theory and Strategy-proofness

Publications

Reffgen, A. and L.-G. Svensson. Strategy-proof voting for multiple public goods. Forthcoming in Theoretical Economics.
Reffgen, A. (2011). Generalizing the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem: partial preferences, the degree of manipulation, and multi-valuedness. Social Choice and Welfare 37, 39-59.
Reffgen, A. (2011). Essays on Strategy-proof Social Choice. Lund Economic Studies 164, Doctoral Thesis.

Conference Participation

2011: UECE Lisbon Meetings 2011: Game Theory and Applications in Lisbon, Portugal (presentation)
2011: The Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures 2011: Dynamic Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach in Lund, Sweden
2011: 7th Biannual Conference of the Society for Economic Design in Montreal, Canada (presentation)
2010: 10th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Moscow, Russia (presentation)
2009: Conference on Economic Design 2009 in Maastricht, The Netherlands (presentation)
2008: 27th Arne Ryde Symposium on Mechanism Design in Lund, Sweden (presentation)
2008: 3rd Meeting of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany
2008: 9th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Montreal, Canada (presentation)
2006: The Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures 2006: The Equilibrium Manifold in Lund, Sweden

Referee Assignments

Games and Economic Behavior; Review of Economic Design.

University Teacher Training

Communication Skills in Higher Education (Spring 2007, Centre for Educational Development, Lund University)
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: An Introduction (Spring 2008, Centre for Educational Development, Lund University)
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Continuation (Autumn 2008, Centre for Educational Development, Lund University)
Doctoral Supervision - Introduction (Autumn 2011, Centre for Educational Development, Lund University)

Department of Economics School of Economics and Management Lund University