“No encontró respuesta, las respuestas no llegan siempre cuando uno las necesita, muchas veces ocurre que quedarse esperando es la única respuesta posible.” (pp. 297)

Ensayo sobre la ceguera, José Saramago

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Carl Sagan

'Smoot called winning the Nobel "a great thrill" but said it was "not quite the same thrill as making the discovery, and having to keep it secret for months before the announcement".'

George Smoot (2006 Physics Nobel Prize winner) on The Berkelyean, October 5, 2006.

Santiago Oliveros

Research

 

Research Interests

Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy.

Publications

"Choosing what to protect. Strategic defensive allocation against an unknown attacker" (joint with Vicki Bier and Larry Samuelson). Journal of Public Economic Theory, August 2007, Vol. 9 (4), 563-587.

Working Papers

"Endogenous information in committees and aggregation of information in large elections".

 

"Abstention, ideology and information acquisition"

    Technical Appendix

 

“Combinatorial Voting” (joint with David Ahn).

 

"Equilibrium bluffs: a model of rational feints"

 

"Endogenous conflict in political advising"

Work in Progress

"A note on communication with partial coincidence of preferences", September 2004.

Quotes related to research

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

Albert Einstein

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

Albert Einstein

"When you make the finding yourself--even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light--you'll never forget it."
Carl Sagan

"Reason is sufficient provided one needs only vague observation of events; calculation becomes necessary as soon as the truth depends upon exact and precise observations."

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

(Essai sur l'application de l'analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendeus à la pluralité des voix)

 

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