Prof. Aner Sela
Chair of the Economics Department

	Office Address:	Department of Economics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
	Tel:	+972-8-647-2309
	Fax:	+972-8-647-2941
	E-Mail:	anersela@bgu.ac.il

Research Interests | General Information | Publications | Working Papers

Research Interests

• Economic Theory

• Game Theory

General Information

2007 - present	Chair, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2005 - present	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2005 - 2006	Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bonn.
2001 - 2005	Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1998 - 2001	Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1997 - 1998	Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim.
1996 - 1997	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bonn.
1996	Ph.D Economics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Publications

• Dov Monderer and Aner Sela (1996)
  A 2x2 Game Without the Fictitious Play Property. Games and Economic Behavior, 14, 244-148.

• Dov Monderer, Dov Samet and Aner Sela (1997)
  Belief Affirming in Learning Processes. Journal of Economic Theory, 73, 438-458.

• Karl Schlag and Aner Sela (1998)
  You Play (an Action) Only Once. Economics Letters, 3, 299-303.

• Shlomit Hon-Snir, Dov Monderer and Aner Sela (1998)
  A Learning Approach to Auctions. Journal of Economic Theory, 82, 65-88.

• Dorothea Herreiner and Aner Sela (1999)
  Fictitious Play in Coordination Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 28, 189-197

• Aner Sela (1999)
  Fictitious Play in 'One-Against-All' Multi-player Games, Economic Theory, 14, 635-651

• Aner Sela (2000)
  Fictitious play in 2x3 Games, Games and Economic Behavior,31,152-162.

• Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela (2001)
  The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests, American Economic Review, 91, 542-558.

• Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Ram Orzach and Aner Sela (2001)
  Dominant Strategies, Superior Information, and Winner’s Curse in Second-Price Auctions, International Journal of Game Theory, 30(3), 405-412.

• Gadi Fibich, Arieh Gavious and Aner Sela (2002)
  Low and High Types in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions, Economics Letters, 75(2), 283-287.

• Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Ram Orzach and Aner Sela (2002)
  Dominance Solvability of Second-Price Auctions with Differential Information, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 37, 247-258.

• Todd Kaplan, Israel Luski, Aner Sela and David Wettstein (2002)
  All-Pay Auctions with Variable Rewards, Journal of Industrial Economics ,L(4),417-430.

• Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela (2003)
  Patent Licensing to Bertrand Competitors, International Journal of Industrial Organization 21(3), 1-13.

• Arieh Gavious, Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela (2003)
  Bid Costs and Endogenous Bid Caps, RAND Journal of Economics,33(4),709-722

• Gadi Fibich, Arieh Gavious and Aner Sela (2004)
  Revenue Equivalence in Asymmetric Auctions, Journal of Economic Theory, 115, 309-321.

• Chen Cohen and Aner Sela (2005)
  Manipulations in Contests, Economics Letters, 86, 135-139.

• Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela (2006)
  Contest Architecture,Journal of Economic Theory, 126(1), 70-97.

• Gadi Fibich, Arieh Gavious and Aner Sela (2006)
  All-Pay Auctions with Weakly Risk-Averse Players, International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 4, 583-599.

• Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi (2007)
  Contests for Status, Journal of Political Economy, 115(2), 338-363.

• Chen Cohen and Aner Sela (2007)
  Contests with Ties, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 7, Iss. 1. (Contributions), Article 43.

• Chen Cohen and Aner Sela (2008)
  Allocation of Prizes in Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions, European Journal of Political Economy, 24, 123-132.

• Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela, Xianwen Shi.
  Competing Auctions with Endogenous Quantities, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. [PDF]

• Chen Cohen, Todd Kaplan and Aner Sela.
  Optimal Rewards in Contests, RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming. [PDF]

• Christian Groh, Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela and Uwe Sunde.
  Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments, Economic Theory, forthcoming. [PDF]

• Heidrun C. Hoppe, Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela.
  The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. [PDF]

Working Papers

• Todd Kaplan and Aner Sela.
  Effective Political Contests [PDF]

• Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela, Xianwen Shi.
  Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests. [PDF]

• Aner Sela.
  Sequential Two-Prize Contests. [PDF]

• Aner Sela.
  Best-of-Three All-Pay Auctions. [PDF]