Alan D. Miller

Moving soon to the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and Department of Economics


Curriculum Vitae

Research Statement



Job Market Paper
A Model of Community Standards
most recent version: November 13, 2008.


Published Research
Group Identification. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 63 (2008), 188-202. [Science Direct]


Working Papers
A Measure of Bizarreness (with Christopher P. Chambers)
most recent version: March 27, 2009.
[an article in Slate.com discussing our measure] [an article in Science discussing our measure]
Unscheduled Appointments (with R. Preston McAfee)
most recent version: March 11, 2009.
[Supplementary Notes]
Obscenity and Community Standards: A Social Choice Approach
most recent version: October, 2008.


Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
Second Israeli Game Theory Conference in honor of Professor Yisrael Aumann
Raanana, Israel,   January 1, 2006.
University of Haifa, Invited Talk
Haifa, Israel,   June 29, 2006.
Ben Gurion University, Invited Talk
Beersheva, Israel,   July 3, 2006.
Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Istanbul, Turkey,   July 14, 2006.
Cowles Foundation Workshop on Aggregation of Opinions
New Haven, Connecticut,   September 16, 2006.
Fall 2006 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting
West Lafayette, Indiana,   October 15, 2006.
The 18th International Conference on Game Theory
Stony Brook, New York,   July 10, 2007.
Southwest Economic Theory Conference
Santa Barbara, California,   March 2, 2008.
66th Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference
Chicago, Illinois,   April 3, 2008.
Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University,
First Annual Graduate Student Conference

New York, New York,   May 9, 2008.
2008 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,   June 21, 2008.
Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society
Evanston, Illinois,   July 14, 2008.
University of Haifa, Invited Talk
Haifa, Israel,   December 14, 2008.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, Invited Talk
Jerusalem, Israel,   December 15, 2008.
Bar Ilan University, Invited Talk
Ramat Gan, Israel,   December 16, 2008.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Economics, Invited Talk
Jerusalem, Israel,   December 17, 2008.
Technion, Invited Talk
Haifa, Israel,   December 21, 2008.
Ben Gurion University, Invited Talk
Beersheva, Israel,   December 24, 2008.
2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on The Redistricting Problem
Washington, DC,   January 8, 2009.


Contact Information
alan at hss.caltech.edu

California Institute of Technology
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Mail Code 228-77
Pasadena, California 91125

Cellular Phone: (310) 770-0511


Biography
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2009
M.S., California Institute of Technology, 2006
J.D., Northwestern University, 2001
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1998

Attorney-Advisor, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2002-2004