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Inventory of the Alvin Roth Papers, 1960s-2000

Abstract

Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University. His research interests include game theory, experimental economics, and market design.

Collection includes correspondence files, writings and research, writings by other economists, and some teaching material.

Descriptive Summary

Repository
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Creator
Roth, Alvin E., 1951-
Title
Alvin Roth Papers, 1960s-2000
Language of Material
English
Extent
12.6 Linear Feet, 9450 Items
Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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Collection Overview

The collection offers a wealth of information from Roth's early career at the University of Pittsburgh, including his research and correspondence from that period, as well as drafts of some of his well-cited articles and writings. Approximately one-half of the material lies in the Correspondence and Working Papers series. This portion of the collection, arranged alphabetically by correspondant, includes professional correspondence as well as many drafts of scholarly articles. This arrangement replicates Roth's original filing system, which offers insight into his correspondence style and methodology for economics collaboration. Notable correspondants include Roy Weintraub, Robert Aumann, Ido Erev, Uriel Rothblum, and many more. Also included are various subject files, including Winner's Curse, Matching, and Learning.

Another notable component of the collection is Roth's Writings and Research, which includes both working drafts of Roth's own as well as data printouts and other components of his work in game theory and its real-world applications. These files have been grouped by article and are loosely arranged by date. Each article's co-writers or collaborators are noted if known.

The Writings by Others series has some overlap with the Correspondence and Working Drafts series, but for the most part the former includes only the article from Roth's fellow economists, without the collarborative or feedback aspect present in the latter series.

Roth's Teaching and Courseworkseries includes lecture notes as well as tools such as transparencies used during his economics lectures. Roth's own coursework at Stanford is also present, including notes, exams, syllabi, and lectures on topics such as microeconomics, competitive strategies, game theory, and choice theory.

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Contents of the Collection

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Roth's files of correspondence and working papers, arranged alphabetically by last name. Files largely consist of professional correspondence between Roth and fellow economists around the world, and usually include copies of a working paper or other scholarship. There are occasional subject files interspersed as well. Most files date from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.

Abeledo, Hernán
Box 1
Abreu, Dilip
Box 1
Albers, Wulf
Box 1
Alcalde, Jose
Box 1
Alger, Dan
Box 1
Alkan, Ahmet
Box 1
Anabarci, Nejat M.
Box 1
Arce M., Daniel G.
Box 1
Ashenfelter, Orley
Box 1
Aumann, Robert J.

Addditional legal-sized correspondence is housed in Box 18.

Box 1
Axelrod, Robert
Box 1
Baiman, Stanley
Box 1
Balinsku, Michel
Box 1
Barbera, Salvador
Box 1
Bartholdi III, John J.
Box 1
Beggs, Alan W.
Box 1
Bennett, Elaine
Box 2
Berg, Joyce E.
Box 2
Bergstrom, Ted
Box 2
Bikhchandani, Sushil
Box 2
Billera, Louis J.
Box 2
Binmore, Kenneth G.
Box 2
Bird, Charles
Box 2
Bjorner, Anders
Box 2
Blair, Charles
Box 2
Bolton, Gary E.
Box 2
Bondareva, O.N.
Box 2
Boorman, Scott
Box 2
Borm, Peter (Pem)
Box 2
Bornstein, Gary
Box 2
Brams, Steven J.
Box 2
Callen, Jeffrey
Box 2
Camerer, Colin F.
Box 2
Carducci, Olivia
Box 2
Carlin, Paul S.
Box 2
Carroll, Wayne
Box 2
Carter, Michael
Box 2
Cashdan, Elizabeth
Box 3
Cave, Jonathan A. K.
Box 3
Caves, Richard E.
Box 3
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Box 3
Chang, Fwu-Rang
Box 3
Chatterjee, Kalyan
Box 3
Chew, Soo Hong
Box 3
Chun, Youngsub
Box 3
Chung, Kim-Sau
Box 3
Chvatal, V.
Box 3
Clark, Herbert H.
Box 3
Collins, Susan
Box 3
Cramton, Peter C.
Box 3
Crane, Fred
Box 3
Crawford, Vincent P.
Box 3
Crott, Helmet
Box 3
David, Paul A.
Box 3
Davis, Morton
Box 3
Debrock, Lawrence M.
Box 3
Driessen, T.S.H.
Box 3
Dubey, Pradeep
Box 4
Durrett, Rich
Box 4
Easley, David
Box 4
Eckel, Catherine
Box 4
Eliashberg, Jehoshua
Box 4
Elster, Jon
Box 4
Englebrecht-Wiggins, R.
Box 4
Erev, Ido
Box 4
Farrell, Joseph von R
Box 4
Felsenthal, Dan S
Box 4
Ferejohn, John A
Box 4
Fiorina, Morris P
Box 4
Forsythe, Robert
Box 4
Friedman, Daniel
Box 4
Fudenberg, Drew
Box 5
Gale, David
(2 folders)
Box 5
Gal-Or, Esther
Box 5
Gardner, Roy
Box 5
Gauthier, David
Box 5
Geanakoplos, John D.
Box 5
Granot, Daniel
Box 5
Green, Edward
Box 5
Green, Jerry R.
Box 5
Green, Leonard
Box 5
Guggenheim
Box 5
Gul, Faruk
Box 5
Gusfield, Dan
Box 5
Guth, Werner
Box 5
Halpern, Joseph
Box 5
Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.
Box 5
Harrison, Glenn W.
Box 6
Harsanyi, John C.
Box 6
Harstad, Ronald
Box 6
Hart, Sergiu
Box 6
Heckathorn, Douglas
Box 6
Heijmans, Johannes
Box 6
Herrero, Maria-Jose
Box 6
Hoffman, Elizabeth
(2 folders)
Box 6
Holland, Paul W.
Box 6
Holmstrom, Bengt
Box 6
Holt, Charles A.
Box 6
Howe, Eric D.
Box 6
Huang, Peter H.
Box 6
Hwang, J.S.
Box 6
Imai, Haruo
Box 6
Jaycees-TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men)
Box 7
Jones, Philip C.
Box 7
Kagel, John H.
Box 7
Kahn, Charles
Box 7
Kahneman, Daniel
Box 7
Kalai, Ehud
Box 7
Kamecke, Ulrich
Box 7
Kaneko, Mamoru
Box 7
Kihlstrom, Richard
Box 7
Kikuta, Kensaku
Box 7
Kim, Yong-Gwan
Box 7
Knez, Marc J.
Box 7
Knuth, Donald E.
Box 7
Kohli, Rajeev
Box 7
Kreps, David M.
Box 7
Kulakovskaja, T.E.
Box 7
Landsberger, Michael
Box 7
Laskey, Kathryn B.
Box 7
Learning (subject)
Box 7
Lehrer, Ehud
Box 8
Leopold-Wildburger, Ulrike
Box 8
Levin, Dan
Box 8
Lipman, Barton L.
Box 8
Loomes, Graham
Box 8
Lucas, William F.
Box 8
Matching (subject)
Box 8
Machina, Mark
Box 8
Malkiel, Burton G.
Box 8
Mandel, Michael J.
Box 8
Marshall, Robert C.
Box 8
Maskin, Eric
Box 8
Masso, Jordi
Box 8
McClennan, Edward
Box 8
McMillan, John
Box 8
Mertens, Jean-Francois
Box 8
Michener, H. Andrew
Box 8
Milgrom, Paul R.
Box 8
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1985-1986
Box 8
Mo, Jie-Ping
(2 folders)
Box 8
Moldovanu, Benny
Box 8
Mortensen, Dale T.
Box 8
Moulin, Herve
Box 8
Murnighan, Keith
Box 8
Myerson, Roger B.
Box 8
Nagle, Rosemarie
Box 8
Neale, Margaret
Box 8
Neelin, Janet
Box 8
Norman, Robert Z.
Box 9
Nydegger, Rudy V.
Box 9
O’Brien, John R.
Box 9
Ochs, Jack
Box 9
Okada, Akira
Box 9
Okuno, Masahiro
Box 9
O’Neill, Barry
Box 9
Osborne, Martin J.
Box 9
Ostrom, Elinor
Box 9
Palfrey, Thomas R.
Box 9
Peleg, Belazel
Box 9
Pittel, Boris
Box 9
Plott, Charles R.
Box 9
Pollak, Robert A.
Box 9
Pondy, Louis R.
Box 9
Postlethwaite, Andrew
Box 9
Prudencio, Yves Coffi
Box 9
Publishers' correspondence, 1984-1998
Box 9
Quint, Thomas
Box 9
Quinzii, Martine
Box 9
Radner, Roy
Box 9
Raiffa, Howard
Box 9
Rapoport, Amnon
Box 9
Rapoport, Anatol
Box 9
Rashid, Salim
Box 9
Rietz, Thomas A.
Box 9
Reny, Philip J.
Box 9
Rice, Peter
Box 10
Rob, Rafael
Box 10
Roberts, John
Box 10
Rochford, Sharon
Box 10
Romero-Medina, Antonio
Box 10
Ronn, Eytan
Box 10
Rosen, Sherwin
Box 10
Rosenthal, Robert W.
Box 10
Roter, V.I.
Box 10
Roth, Ted
Box 10
Rothblum, Uriel G.
(2 folders)
Box 10
Rubin, Jeffrey Z.
Box 10
Rubinstein, Ariel
Box 10
Samet, Dov
Box 10
Samuelson, Larry
Box 10
Samuelson, William
Box 10
Schmeidler, David
Box 10
Schotter, Andrew
Box 11
Schoumaker, Francoise
Box 11
Scotchmer, Suzanne
Box 11
Segal, Uziel
Box 11
Selten, Reinhard
Box 11
Sen, Amartya
Box 11
Shaked, Avner
Box 11
Shannon, Chris
Box 11
Shapiro, Roy D.
Box 11
Shapley, Lloyd S.
Box 11
Shenoy, P.P.
Box 11
Shmida, Avi
Box 11
Shubik, Martin
Box 11
Siegel, Sidney
Box 11
Sloan Foundation
Box 11
Smith, Lones
Box 11
Smith, Vernon L.
Box 11
Sobel, Joel
Box 11
Sondak, Harris
Box 11
Sonmez, Tayfun
Box 11
Sonnenschein, Hugo
Box 11
Sopher, Barry
Box 11
Sprague, John
Box 11
Stahl, Dale O.
Box 11
Steinberg, Richard
Box 11
Straffin, Philip D.
Box 12
Subramanian, Ashok
Box 12
Sunder, Shyam
Box 12
Sussangkarn, Chal
Box 12
Tauman, Yair
Box 12
Technion
Box 12
Telser, Lester G.
Box 12
Texas Instruments
Box 12
Thaler, Richard
Box 12
Thomson, William
Box 12
Tietz, Reinhard
Box 12
Tijs, S.H.
Box 12
Tucker, A.W.
Box 12
USIP (U.S. Institute of Peace)
Box 12
Van Damme, Eric
Box 12
Vande Vate, John
Box 12
Verrecchia, Robert
Box 12
Vilkas, Eduardas
Box 12
Villamil, Anne P.
Box 12
Wako, Jun
Box 12
Weber, Robert James
Box 12
Weintraub, Roy
Box 12
Winner’s Curse (subject)
Box 12
Winship, Christopher
Box 12
Winter, Eyal
Box 12
Wolinsky, Asher
Box 12
Wooders, M. Holtz
Box 12
Young, H.P.
Box 12
Yuan, Yufei
Box 12
Zame, William R.
Box 12
Zamir, Shmuel
Box 12
Zhou, Lin
Box 12
Zoffer, H.J.
Box 12
Aumann, Robert
Box 18
Handbook of Experimental Economics, 1988-1991
Box 18

Drafts, correspondence, and data from a selection of Roth's many journal articles. Includes correspondence between Roth and his co-writers, as well as some publishers' correspondence. Arranged loosely by date, although many articles span several years and thus do not fit in a precise chronological order. Also included at the end of the series are research and notes on game theory.

Roth: Electrostatic Charge on Aircraft in Flight, 1969
Box 13
Roth: Self-Supporting Equilibria in the Supergame, 1975
Box 13
Roth: A Note on Cooperative Games with Varying Power, 1975
Box 13
Roth: Interpersonal Comparisons and Equal Gains in Bargaining, 1978
Box 13
Roth: Values for Games without Sidepayments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts, 1978
(2 folders)
Box 13
Roth: Axiomatic Models of Bargaining, 1978-1979
(2 folders)
Box 13
Roth: An Impossibility Result Concerning n-Person Bargaining Games, 1979
Box 13
Kihlstrom, Roth, and Schmeidler: Risk Aversion and Solutions to Nash's Bargaining Problem, 1979
Box 13
Roth and Malouf: Game Theoretic Models and the Role of Information in Bargaining, 1979
(Folder 1 of 3)
Box 13
Roth and Malouf: Game Theoretic Models and the Role of Information in Bargaining, 1979-1982
(Folders 2-3 of 3)
Box 14
Roth: On the Non-Transferable Utility Value: A Reply to Aumann, 1981-1984
(2 folders)
Box 14
Roth and Murnighan: Information and Asperations in Two Person Bargaining, 1983
Box 14
Roth: National Science Foundation Proposal (rejected), 1988
Box 14
Mongell and Roth: Figures from AER article, 1991
Box 14
Roth and Sotomayor: Stable Outcomes in Discrete and Continuous Models of 2-sided Matching, 1991-1992
Box 14
Roth: Adaptive Behavior and Strategic Rationality - Torino Conference, 1992-1993
Box 15
Roth: Keep Con out of Experimental Econ, 1993
Box 15
Roth: Individual Rationality as Useful Approximation - Tversky's Rational Theory and Constructive Choice, 1994
Box 15
Roth and Xing: Turnaround Time and Bottlenecks in Market Cleaning, 1994-1996
(2 folders)
Box 15
Roth: Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks - Lessons Learned, 1995
Box 15
Roth and Erev: Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games..., 1995-1997
(2 folders)
Box 15
Roth and Peranson: Effects of Change in the NRMP Algorithm, 1996-1997
(3 folders)
Box 15
Kagel and Roth: The Dynamics of Reorganization in Matching Markets, 1993-1997
(4 folders)
Box 16
Roth and Sotomayor: Existence of Stable Outcomes for an Unified Matching Market, 1997
Box 16
Roth and Rothblum: Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets, 1995-1998
(3 folders)
Box 16
Slonim and Roth: Financial Incentives and Learning in Ultimatum and Market Games: An Experiment in the Slovak Republic, 1993-1994
(Folder 1 of 6)
Box 16
Slonim and Roth: Financial Incentives and Learning in Ultimatum and Market Games: An Experiment in the Slovak Republic, 1995-1997
(Folders 2-6 of 6)
Box 17
Roth: Cooperative Games, undated
Box 17
Roth: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies, undated
Box 17
Instructions on Risk Aversion simulation printouts, undated
Box 17
Prasnikar and Roth: Considerations of Fairness and Strategy (graphics for Quarterly Journal of Economics), 1992
Box 18
Game theory
Box 18
Game theory experiment print-outs
(3 folders)
Box 18
Two economic texts in Yiddish
Box 20

Drafts and articles sent to Roth but written by other economists. Files are arranged alphabetically by author.

An Axiomatization of the Non-Transferrable Utility Value, 1983
Box 19
One the NTU Value
Box 19
Power and Public Goods
Box 19
Rejoinder
Box 19
Value, Symmetry, and Equal Treatment
Box 19
Bendor and Swistak: Evolutionary stability of cooperation, 1998
Box 19
A Characterization of Polyhedral Market Games
Box 19
On Games without Side Payments Arising from a General Class of Markets, 1973
Box 19
Market Representations of n-Person Games, 1973
Box 19
Decentralized Decision-Making in Two-Sided Matching, 1992
Box 19
Measuring the Instability in Two-Sided Matching Procedures, 1993
Box 19
Burrows, Paul, and Graham Loomes: The Impact of Fairness on Bargaining Behavior, 1992
Box 19
Friedman, Eric, 1996-1997
Box 19
Gardner, Roy: n-Transfer Value and Fixed Price Equilibrium in Two-Sided Markets, 1983
Box 19
Harrington, Warren: The Genossenschaften, 1973
Box 19
Hart, Sergiu: Non-transferable Utility Games and Markets: Some Examples and the Harsanyi Sol.
Box 19
Holt, Charles A.: The Effect of Market Power on the Direction of Convergence in Oral Double Auctions
Box 19
Hughes, John S.: A Note on Stochastic Dominance and Preference, 1992
Box 19
Nalbantian, Haig: Matching and Efficiency in the Baseball Free-Agent System, 1991
Box 19
Shafer, Wayne J.: On Existence and Interpretation of Value Allocation, 1977
Box 20
Simon, Herbert: The Game of Chess
Box 20
Sobolev, A.I.: The Characterization of Optimality Principles in Cooperative Games by Functional Equations, undated
Box 20
Various authors: requests for feedback, 1997 and undated
Box 20

Lecture notes and transparencies from Roth's courses, including a mini-course of four lectures on game theory taught by Roth in 1980. Also includes coursework from Roth's time at Stanford.

Lecture notes on Nash and Utility of Bargaining, 1977
Box 20
Game theory class transparencies and notes
Box 20
Transparencies with simple games, undated
Box 20
Introduction to non-cooperative games, undated
Box 20
Mini-course on Game Theory, 1980
(4 folders)
Box 20
Analysis of Competitive Strategies, 1973
Box 21
Axiomatic Foundations of Choice Theory, 1972
Box 21
Class notes, undated
Box 21
Coursework: Lattices, 1974
Box 21
Game theory notes, 1970s
(2 folders)
Box 21
Microeconomics
Box 21
Syllabi, bibliographies, and lecture notes, 1972-1976
Box 21

Historical Note

Alvin Roth was born on Dec. 18, 1951. He graduated from Columbia University in 1971, and earned a masters (1973) and Ph.D. (1974) from Stanford University in operations research. Roth went on to teach economics and business administration at the University of Illinois from 1974-1982, and at the University of Pittsburgh from 1982-1998. In 1998, he became full faculty at Harvard University, and remains there today.

Roth's work focuses on game theory, market design, and experimental economics. He has worked on a variety of real-world projects, including the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) system, responsible for matching medical residents with respective programs; the New York City and Boston public school systems' high school assignment selection methods; and the New England Program for kidney exchanges between incompatible partners. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1983-1984), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1984-1986), and a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has won the Texas Instruments' Foundation Founders' Prize (1980) and the Operations Research Society of America's Lanchester Prize (1991). He has also authored numerous books and over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles.

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[Identification of item], Alvin Roth Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Provenance

The Alvin Roth Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2011.

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Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2011-0159

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