2007-08 New Faculty
 

Ken Chay, Professor of Economics

Ken Chay received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996.  He is coming to Brown from the University of California at Berkley, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2002. Ken Chay is an empirical micro-economist who has done important research in the areas of labor, health, and the environment. His work is characterized by the importance of the questions being considered and the compelling nature of the inference that is provided. Among his most cited work includes an analysis of the effects of the 1970 Clean Air Act on infant mortality and a study of the impact of Civil Rights legislation on the convergence of black-white mortality in Mississippi. He is the recipient of research grants from the NICHD and the NSF.

Geoffroy de Clippel, Assistant Professor of Economics

Geoffroy de Clippel received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in 2003. He held a position as a post-doc at Brown immediately following his Ph.D. and then moved to Rice University in 2005. De Clippel's work is primarily in the area of cooperative game theory. A current focus of his work is the analysis of whether and how cooperative behavior can be induced under circumstances in which there are important interactions among those joining a coalition and those who are excluded from the coalition.

Kfir Eliaz, Associate Professor of Economics

Kfir Eliaz received a Ph.D. in Economics in 2001 from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He comes to us after six years as an Assistant Professor at NYU.  Eliaz is an economic theorist who does research on mechanism design in the presence of agents with bounded-rationality. For example, one recent paper explores how to best design policies for the testing for the HIV virus in the presence of a fear of testing. Eliaz has published twelve papers, four of which are in top general interest economic journals, and is the recipient of two NSF grants.  Eliaz will teach courses in game theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics.

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