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Arthur Robson

Global rank #248 99%

Institution: Simon Fraser University

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.sfu.ca/~robson

First Publication: 1976

Most Recent: 2023

RePEc ID: pro93 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 1.68 0.67 0.00 4.02
Last 10 Years 2.01 2.68 1.34 0.00 14.75
All Time 14.08 22.29 9.72 0.00 113.61

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 38
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 52.34

Publications (38)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2023 Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth American Economic Review: Insights A 3
2023 Adaptive utility Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2022 The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2019 Evolved attitudes to idiosyncratic and aggregate risk in age-structured populations Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2018 Certified Random: A New Order for Coauthorship American Economic Review S 2
2017 Applying “theory of mind”: Theory and experiments Games and Economic Behavior B 3
2016 The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication American Economic Review S 2
2014 A Biological Theory of Social Discounting American Economic Review S 2
2012 The Evolutionary Basis of Time Preference: Intergenerational Transfers and Sex American Economic Journal: Microeconomics B 3
2010 A bioeconomic view of the Neolithic transition to agriculture Canadian Journal of Economics C 1
2009 The Evolution of Time Preference with Aggregate Uncertainty American Economic Review S 2
2008 Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection: Comment American Economic Review S 2
2007 Why do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging American Economic Review S 2
2007 The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences American Economic Review S 2
2006 Viewpoint: The economics of hunter‐gatherer societies and the evolution of human characteristics Canadian Journal of Economics C 2
2004 Reinterpreting mixed strategy equilibria: a unification of the classical and Bayesian views Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2003 A short proof of Harsanyi's purification theorem Games and Economic Behavior B 3
2003 The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies American Economic Review S 2
2003 The evolution of rationality and the Red Queen Journal of Economic Theory A 1
2001 Why Would Nature Give Individuals Utility Functions? Journal of Political Economy S 1
1998 Forward Induction, Public Randomization, and Admissibility, Journal of Economic Theory A 2
1998 Naive Adaptive Behavior and the Observability of Gambles Games and Economic Behavior B 1
1996 The Evolution of Attitudes to Risk: Lottery Tickets and Relative Wealth Games and Economic Behavior B 1
1996 A Biological Basis for Expected and Non-expected Utility Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1996 Efficient Equilibrium Selection in Evolutionary Games with Random Matching Journal of Economic Theory A 2
1994 An Informationally Robust Equilibrium for Two-Person Nonzero-Sum Games Games and Economic Behavior B 1
1990 Subgame perfect equilibrium in continuous games of perfect information: An elementary approach to existence and approximation by discrete games Journal of Economic Theory A 4
1990 Stackelberg and Marshall. American Economic Review S 1
1983 Existence of Consistent Conjectures: Comment. American Economic Review S 1
1983 OPEC versus the West: A robust equilibrium Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 1
1982 Comparative statics of the market for a consumer durable with an age/quality structure: A reprise of models of urban structure Journal of Urban Economics A 1
1981 Implicit oligopolistic collusion is destroyed by uncertainty Economics Letters C 1
1981 Insurance as a Giffen good Economics Letters C 2
1981 Sufficiency of the pontryagin conditions for optimal control when the time horizon is free Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1979 Sequential exploitation of uncertain deposits of a depletable natural resource Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1979 Urban structure, gas prices, and the demand for transportation Journal of Urban Economics A 2
1976 Cost-benefit analysis and the use of urban land for transportation Journal of Urban Economics A 1
1976 Two models of urban air pollution Journal of Urban Economics A 1