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Frank H. Page, Jr.

Department of Finance

University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487

  Research Interests

Microeconomics and game theory (incentives, contracting, and mechanism design), social and economic network formation, public economics (tax and fiscal competition, optimal income taxation), financial economics (corporate finance and asset pricing). Some of my current research focuses on competitive nonlinear pricing and on dynamics and stability in social and economic network formation.

   Editorial Boards

   Associate Editor of Economics Bulletin (EB). EB is an electronic letters  journal, with a distinguished international board of   Associate Editors.   EB welcomes contributions in all areas of economics. Click here for a recent article describing EB from the Royal Economic Society Newsletterand here for an article about the publication

Associate Editor of the   Journal of Public Economics Theory   (JPET), published by   Blackwell. Also, vice president of   The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET) is the association sponsoring JPET. APET sponsors international conferences (the PET Conferences) which focus on public economics and related topics.

Associate Editor of Annals of Finance(SpringerLink - Journal), published by Springer.

Conferences Organized

2006 NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference, held at the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), April 6-8. The first Decentralization Conference held outside of North America, Home Page

12 place du Pantheon where the 06 UA-Paris NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference was held

PET98, held at the University of Alabama, May 28-31, 1998. PET98 was the first PET Conference and was held in conjunction with the launch of the Journal of Public Economic Theory,   The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET). Since PET98 the Conference has been held in Warwick (PET00), Paris (PET02), Duke (PET03), Beijing (PET04), Marseille (PET05), and Hanoi (PET06). PET07 will be held at Vanderbilt University.

1996 NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference, held at the University of Alabama, April 19-21, The first Decentralization held at a southern university. prog4_96

 

Pont Neuf, Paris

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Selected Recent Papers:

"Uniform Payoff Security and Nash Equilibrium in Compact Games," (with Paulo K. Monteiro, EPGE/FGV), Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming), upsJET

"Strategic Basins of Attraction,the Path Dominance Core, and Network Formation Games," (with Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University), Working Paper No. 06-w14, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, basins59

"Networks and Clubs ," (with Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University), Working Paper No. 05-w29, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, acg45

"Three Principles of Competitive Nonlinear Pricing," (with Paulo K. Monteiro, EPGE/FGV), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2003), TDPjme

"Catalog Competition and Stable Nonlinear Prices," Journal of Mathematical Economics (forthcoming) , stablenp45

"Elections and Strategic Positioning Games," (with Myrna H. Wooders, Vanderbilt University), Review of Economic Design (2003), voteRED

"The Geometry of Arbitrage and the Existence of Competitive Equilibrium," (with Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary University, and Cuong Le Van, CNRS and CERMSEM (Paris I)), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2002), pcgeo8.pdf

"Budget Balancedness and Optimal Income Taxation," (with Marcus Berliant, Washington University), Journal of Public Economic Theory (2006), TaxJPET

"Networks and Farsighted Stability," (with Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University and Samir Kamat,  Wachovia Portfolio Management Group),  Journal of Economic Theory (2005), NetworksJET

"Stock Options and Capital Structure," (with Richard D. MacMinn, Illinios State University), Annals of Finance (2006), usa-so53

"Existence of Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Nonlinear Pricing Games with Incomplete Information," (with Paulo K. Monteiro, EPGE/FGV), deccat50

 

 

 

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