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PERSONAL DATA
First Name: Alan Family Name: Kirman Date of birth: 16 January 1939 Citizenship: British and French Marital Status: Married, 2 children from a first marriage Office address: GREQAM, Centre de la Vieille Charité. 2, rue de la vieille charité, 13236 Marseille Cedex 02, France. phone.: +33 (0)491140734 fax.: +33 (0)491900227 portable: +33 442571579 e-mail: kirman@univmed.fr
education
1950-1957	Dulwich College (G.B.)
1957-1960	Oxford University (Jesus College) B.A. 1960 M.A. 1965
1965	Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna (Italy) diploma
1965-1966	University of Minnesota (USA) First year of gradauate studies in economics.
1966-1969	Princeton University (USA) Ph. D. 1971: "Optimum tariffs in a general equilibrium model of trade", Princeton University, 1971. Supervisor: Professor H.W. Kuhn.
distinctions
1990	Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society,
1995	Membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France
1995	Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung prize
2003	Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques
2004	Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA)
2010	Fondation Urrutia Prize for Economic Diversity
Current situation
Professeur émerite de Sciences Economiques à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille III and Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Previous employment
Sep.1987-Aug.1995	Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence.
1976-79	Professeur de Sciences Economiques à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille II
1973-74	Reader in economics Warwick University.
1974-76	Professeur of economics Warwick University.
1972-73	Professeur Extraordinaire à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles
1970-72	Professeur Associé au CORE, Louvain-La-Neuve et Professeur Visiteur à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles
1969-70	Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
1969-70	Teaching Fellow, Princeton University
1965-66	Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota
1961-64	Head of the Department of Geography, Ratcliffe College, Leicester
1960-61	1960-61 : Schoolmaster at Bedford Modern School, Bedford
Other posts and invited appointments
	Chercheur invité à l'Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (november-december 1973)
	Visiting Professeur, Universität Bonn (May June 1973; June 1984; June 1985)
	Professeur Associé, Université de Marseille-Luminy, 1974-75
	Professeur à l'Ecole Nationale de Statistique et Administration Economique, Paris, 1976-84
	Professeur à l'Université de Paris IX (DEA), 1977-86
	Visiting Professor European University Institute, Florence, September 1984
	Visiting Professor, University of Copenhagen, June 1985
	"Benjamin Meaker visiting professor", University of Bristol, June and November 1989
	Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienne, January 1991
	Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
	Visiting Professor, Universite de Paris X, December 1994
	Visiting Professor, University College London, 1996,1997,1998, 1999, 2000
	Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1997, 1998
	Visiting Professor, University of Bolzano, 1998, 1999
	Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1998
	Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1998
	Visiting Professor, University of Ancona, 2003
	Chaire franco-italienne, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 2003-2004
	Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1998
	Richard B Fisher Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2005-2006
	Visiting professor, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, 2008, 2009, 2010
	Visiting professor, University of Bolzano, 2010
Courses taught
Microeconomics; General Equilibrium, Economic theory; Mathematical Economics; International Trade Theory; Game Theory; Quantitative Economics; History of Economic Thought; International Financial Economics; Industrial Economics; The Economics of Information; Welfare Economics; Public Economics: Market structure. The Economics of Interaction, Behavioural economics.
Theses supervised or co-supervised
1. Michael Blad "Dynamical models in disequilibrium theory", University of Warwick, 1979.
2. Martine Marciano "Information imparfaite et dispersion des prix sur le marché d'un bien homogène",Université d'Aix-Marseille II, 1979.
3. F. Oguer "Biens collectifs locaux et biens differenciés", Université de Marseille, 1985.
4. Michel Le Breton "Essais sur les Fondements de l'analyse économique de l'inégalité", Université de Rennes 1 1986.
5. Alain Trannoy, University of Rennes 1, “Economic Theory of the Measurement of Inequality”, Université de Rennes 1 1986.
6. Robert Jordan "Essais sur la dynamique du déséquilibre", GREQE, January 1987.
7. Robert Kast "Structures mathématiques des processus de décisions économiques dans l'incertain", GREQE, January 1987.
8. Mohamed Nassourou Toure "Etude de la stabilité des équilibres concurrentiels: instabilité du mécanisme de tâtonnement", Université de Paris IX Dauphine, January 1988.
9. Vincent Brousseau "Equilibre de Nash en temps continu, et application à la dynamique des croyances auto-entretenues", EHESS, January 1990.
10. Guy Patrick Mafouta Batsimba "Prix et déséquilibre: formation et dynamique", Université d'Aix-Marseille III, February 1991.
11. Pierluigi Sacco, "Four essays on dynamic evolutionary models in economics and game theory", EUI, March 1993.
12. Nick Vriend, "Essays on decentralized trade", EUI, April 1993.
13. Luciano Pasi, "An essay on some aspects of public goods", EUI, June 1993.
14. Annick Vignes, "Dispersion de prix et marchés décentralisés: le cas du marché au poisson de Marseille", EUI, October 1993.
15. Alain Desdoigts, "Changes in the World Income Distribution: A Non-Parametric Approach to Challenge the Neo-Classical Convergence Argument", EUI, June 1994.
16. Torben Holvad, "Efficiency Evaluations for Hospitals", EUI, September 1994.
17. Aurora Garcia, "Essays on Oligopoly", EUI, October 1994.
18. Frédéric Palomino, "Financial Markets and Market Selection with Imperfect Competition", EUI, October 1994.
19. Isabelle Maret, "Heterogeneity and Aggregation", EUI, November 1994.
20. Alexandra Rauchs, "Option Value and Irreversibility Effect: An Experimental Approach", EUI, February 1995.
21. Ed Hopkins, "Essays on Learning and Evolution", EUI, March 1996.
22. Alfredo Huertas-Rubio, "Exchange Rates, Export Pricing and the Frequency of Price Adjustment, An Analysis of Newsstand Prices of Magazines", EUI, June 1996.
23. Esther Hauk, "Breaking Out: Essays on Partner Selection in Prisoner's Dilemma Games", EUI, December 1996.
24. Paul Pezanis-Christou "Three Essays on Competitive Bidding", EUI, June 1997.
25. Roger Waldeck, "Prices within Imperfectly Informed Consumers", EUI, June 1997.
26. Ludger Birkendorf, "Private Lending to Sovereign Countries", October 1997.
27. Nathalie Schueller, "Pricing Policies and the European Market for Cars", January 1998.
28. Etienne Billette de Villemeur, "Essays on Consistency in Economic Modelling: Stability of Equilibrium, Behavioural Rationality, Heterogeneity of Preferences", September 1998.
29. Dorothea Herreiner, Random Matching and Trade Relationships in Decentralized Markets, EUI, 2000.
30. Giorgio Fagiolo, "Essays on Decentralized Economies with Interacting Agents: Individual Behaviors and Aggregate Dynamics." EUI, 2002.
31. Christophe Bravard, Formation des réseaux. Une approche par la théorie des jeux évolutionnaires, Universite de Saint Etienne, 2002.
32. Christian de Peretti, Computational Econometrics for the Long Memory in Financial Time Series, Universite de la Mediterranee, 2003.
33. Maude Pelissier, « Evolution et Economie : Metaphore ou Paradigme ? », Universite d’Aix-Marseille lll, 2003.
34. Walid Hichri: "Contribution to Public Goods: Theoretical Study and Experimental Evidence," Université d'Aix-Marseille III, 2004.
35. Miriam Teschl “The Identity of the Economic Agent”, Universite d’Aix-Marseille III, 2005.
36. Tilman Hertz, “Le statut des jugements normatifs en economie : Quelques reflexions concernant le cas du developpement durable", Université d’Aix-Marseille III 2007
37. Sonia Moulet, “Negotiations, information, et formations des prix: le MIN de Marseille” EHESS 2008
Theses in preparation
1. Elvira Kazbakova, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, « Le role des intermediaires sur les marches economiques ».
2. Sebastien Ille, University of Siena, “A Game Theoretic Approach to the Formation of Groups”
Other Activities
Invited speaker at conferences or seminars at the Universities of: Toulouse, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Lyon, Dijon, Paris II, Paris IX, Paris X, Paris XII, Essex, London School of Economics, Southampton, Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford, Aston, University College London, Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelone, Pise, Bonn, Bruxelles, Louvain, Namur, Amsterdam, Lausanne, Menya (Egypt), MIT, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, New York University, California at Santa Cruz, Tulane, Rochester, Dartmouth, Michigan, Princeton, Haifa, Copenhagen, Belfast, Dublin, Lisbon, Shanghai, Athens, Prague, Vienna, Geneva, Porto Allegre, Tokyo, Beijing, Hanoi, Columbia, Sydney, Canberra, Tufts, Cornell, Cattolica Milano, Bicocca Milano, LUISS Rome, Princeton, Stanford.
Co-organizer, together with Professor C. Zeeman, of a series of meetings between mathematicians, economists and other social scientists at the University of Warwick, June 1974.
Co-organizer of the UK Study Group in Economic Theory.
Member of the Programme Committee for the European Meetings of the Econometric Society: Helsinki 1976, Vienna 1977, Geneva 1978, Athens 1979, Amsterdam 1981, Dublin 1982, Toulouse 1997.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Colloquium on "Systèmes dynamiqes et modèles économiques", Luminy, July 1976.
Director of the Summer School in Mathematical Economics, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, September-October 1978.
Co-organizer of the Southern European Meeting on Theoretical Economics and Econometrics: Luminy 1979, Bilbao 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, Marseille 1986, Madrid 1987.
President of the local organizing committee for the World Congress of the Econometric Society, Aix-en-Provence, 1980.
Co-organizer of the workshop in Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex, 1982.
Co-founder of SEEDS (Southern European Economics Discussion Paper Series) with the Universities of Toulouse, Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona.
Responsible for the ATP CNRS on "Dynamique du déséquilibre", 1982.
Responsible for the grant from the Commissariat Général du Plan on "Dynamiques, anticipations et échanges d'informations dans les modèles microéconomiques de l'analyse macroéconomique", 1984.
Responsible for the grant from the Commissariat Général du Plan on "Information, communication et planification", 1985.
Responsible for the Erasmus exchange scheme between the Université d'Aix-Marseille, the University of Oxford and the E.U.I., 1988.
Responsible for the grant from the Commissariat Général du Plan on "La Formation des Prix", 1987.
Co-responsible for the project on "The financing of economic research in Europe" (with Michael Emerson, E.E.C.), 1989.
Responsible for S.P.E.S. (Stimulation Plan for Economic Science), A.S.S.E.T. (Association of Southern European Theoretical Economists and Econometricians) project 1989 and for S.P.E.S. project for workshops presenting recent theoretical advances to applied economists.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the Conference on Demography, Florence, December 1988.
Organizer of the ASSET meetings, Florence, October 1989.
Co-organiser, with Mark Salmon, of a conference on Rational Behaviour and Aggregation: Theory and Tests, in the European Workshops series "Applications of recent developments in econometrics and economic theory", Florence, November
Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Game Theory, Florence, June 1991.
Co-organizer, with Mark Salmon, of a Workshop on Rationality and Learning in Economics, Florence, July 1991.
Co-organizer, with Yves Balasko, of a Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Florence, June 1992.
Co-organizer, with Mark Salmon, of a Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics, Florence, July 1992.
Co-organiser of European Workshops in Economic Theory, 1993-1997.
Member of the Programme Committee for the Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Anatalya, 1997.
Organizer of the ASSET meeting, Marseille, 1997.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Commission des Operations de la Bourse, Paris, 1993-2002.
Member of the scientific programme committee for the WEHIA meetings from 1997-2004 in Ancona, Genova, Marseille, Maastricht, Trieste, Kiel, Kyoto.
Local Organiser of the Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille 2004.
Organiser of the Summer School on Game Theory and its Applications, Bolzano 2005.
Co-organiser of EU projects, “Complex Markets”, STREP with the Universities of Warwick, Amsterdam,Cagliari, and ICTP Trieste. 2005-2008.
“Ineck”, Network of Excellence with the universities of Maastricht, Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Strasbourg, and Alicante.
“Exystence” Network of Excellence with the universities of Jerusalem, Turin, ENS Paris.
Administrative responsibilities
Chairman of the Département de Sciences Humaines, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, 1978-79.
Director of the Research Group in Economie Quantitative et Econométrie (GREQE), U.A. CNRS 04-950, 1982-87. Attaché aux Universités d'Aix-Marseille II et III et à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, since 1980.
Organizer of the teaching programme for the License MASS, Université d'Aix-Marseille III.
Director of the doctoral programme of "3ème cycle en Economie Mathématique et Econometrie, DEA et Doctorat", à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille et Université d'Aix-Marseille II et III, 1982-87.
Member of the Comité de Direction du Laboratoire CNRS, le CAMS.
Directeur Fondation Les Treilles, Tourtour, France, 1986
Chairman, Department of Economics, E.U.I., Florence, 1989-90.
Member of the Panel of Economic Policy, 1995-96.
President of the Visiting Committee, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Member of the Scientific Council University of Trento 1999-
Member of the Council of the Centro Di Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 2002-
Member of the Founding Committee of the Free Uniiversity of Bolzano 1998 - 2009
Vice chairman of the Marie Curie selection committee Brussels 2003
Member of the Comite National des Universites, 1999-2003
President of ASSET, (The Association of Southern European Economic Theorists) 2001-2003
Member of the Steering Committee of the Europole de l’Arbois
President of the Association PISTE, 2002-
Member of the “Wise Men Committee”, MTS, Milan, 2003-
Member of the selection committee for projects submitted to the Eu 5th and 6th framework, 2003-2004
Vice President of the Committee for “Projets Blancs” Association Nationale pour la Recherche, 2007-2009
Member of the Organising Committee for the Social Sciences, ANR 2009-
Member of the International Supervisory Committee, Scuola Superiore, Sant’Anna Pisa 2009-
Membre du Comité d’Evaluation de l’Université de Saint Etienne, 2009-
Member of the International selection committee, Austrian National Science Foundation, 2009-
Administrative responsibilities
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematical Economics 1974-86.
Member of the Committee of the Society for Economic Analysis (the Board of the Review of Economic Studies 1975-85).
Advisory Editor for Textbooks in Advanced Economic Theory, North Holland.
Member of the Editorial Board of Ricerche Economiche. 1992-1996.
Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2000-2009.
Member of the Panel of Economic Policy for 1995 and 1996.
Member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Complex Systems, 1998 -
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,1999-
Honorary Editor , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010-
referee for
American Economic Review; Economic Journal; Econometrica; Quarterly Journal of Economics; International Economic Review; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Public Economics; European Economic Review; Journal of Mathematical Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Journal of Economic Organization and Behaviour, etc.
fellowships
Houblon-Norman Senior Research Fellow, Bank of England, August 1994.
books
1. (with W. Hildenbrand): Introduction to Equilibrium Analysis, North Holland Publishing Co., 1976.
2. (with W. Hildenbrand): Equilibrium Analysis, North Holland Publishing Co., 1988.
3. (with A. Lapied): Microéconomie, P.U.F., Paris, 1991.
4. Co-editor with K. Binmore and P. Tani of Frontiers of Game Theory, M.I.T. Press, 1993.
5. Learning and Rationality in Economics, (co-editor with M. Salmon), Basil Blackwell, 1995.
6. (with M.Dahl), Economic Research in Europe, E.U.I. Monographs in Economics, European University Institute, Florince, 1996.
7. (with M. Dahl), Europeanisation of economic research, European Commission, March 1996
8. Nonlinear Dynamics and Economics, (editor with W A Barnett and M Salmon) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
9. Elements of General Equilibrium Analysis (editor) Basil Blackwell 1998.
10. Economics Beyond the Millinium (editor with L.A. Gerard-Varet), Oxford University Press 1999
11. Beyond the Represintative Agent, (Editor with M. Galegatti), Edward Elgar, Oxford, 1999
12. Interaction and Market Structure (Edited with Dominico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati) Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (1999)
13. Economics with Interacting Agents (Edited with J-B Zimmermann), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (2001)
14. "The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction", ed with, Gallegatti et Marsili, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. (2004)
15. “Economics: Complex Windows” edited with Massimo Salzano Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005
16. Long Memory in Economics, edited with Gilles Teyssière, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006
17. Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality, Routledge, London, 2010
18. Vilfredo Pareto e i suoi contributi all’economia , LUISS university press Rome forthcoming 2012.
Thesis
"Optimum tariffs in a general equilibrium model of trade", Princeton University, 1971. Supervisor: Professor H.W. Kuhn.
articles
1. (with W. Schmidt), "Key currency burdens. The U.K. case", National Banking Review, September 1965.
2. (with L. Tomasini), "A note on convexity", Metroeconomica, no. 11, 1968.
3. (with L. Tomasini), "A new look at international income inequalities", Economia Internazionale, August 1968 : Cowles Foundation Paper no. 317.
4. (with L. Tomasini), "Teoria delle scelte sociali e relativi concetti", L'Industria, no. 2, 1969.
5. "A report on the marine insurance industry", U.S. Department of Commerce, October 1970.
6. Three translations of the works of Pareto, Volterra and Antonelli in Preferences Utility and Demand, Chipman et al., Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovitch, 1971.
7. "Distribution of income, social welfare functions and the criterion of consumer surplus: a comment", European Economic Review, no. 3, pp. 437-440, 1972; CORE Reprint no. 125.
8. (with D. Sondermann): "Arrow's theorem many agents and invisible dictators", Journal of Economic Theory, no. 5 (3), pp. 308-35, 1972.
9. "Trade diverting customs unions: a comment", Economic Journal, September 1973.
10. "Réflexions sur la contribution de la théorie économique au problème de resorption de la fraude fiscale", in L'Exacte Perception de l'Impôt, M. Frank (ed.), Bruxelles, 1973.
11. (with W. Hildenbrand): "Size removes inequity", Review of Economic Studies, no. 40 (3), pp. 305-19, 1973.
12. (with A. Feldman): "Fairness, equity and envy", American Economic Review, September 1973.
13. (with M. Sobel): "Dynamic oligopoly with inventories", Econometrica, March 1974.
14. (with J.M. Grandmont and W. Neuefeind): "A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium", Review of Economic Studies, 1975.
15. "Learning by firms about demand conditions", in Adaptive Economics, R. Day (ed.), Academic Press, 1975.
16. Two articles in The Economist, 1976 and 1977.
17. "Measure theory and its applications to economics", in Handbook of Mathematical Economics, vol. 1, K. Arrow and M. Intriligator (eds.), North Holland, 1981.
18. "Communication in markets: a suggested approach", Economics Letters, vol. 12, no. 1, pp.101-8, 1983.
19. "Mistaken beliefs and resultant equilibria", in Individual Forecasting and Collective Outcomes, R. Frydman and E. Phelps (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1983.
20. (with L.A. Gérard-Varet and R. Jordan): "Dynamiques, anticipations et échanges d'information dans les modèles microéconomiques de l'analyse macroéconomique". 1) Report for ATP CNRS, April 1982 and 2) Report for the Commissariat Général du Plan, 1984.
21. (with M. Blad): "L'évolution à long terme d'un modèle d'èquilibre with rationnement", Revue d'Economie Politique, 6, pp. 795-808, 1985.
22. "Organisation et communication dans les marchés", Economie Appliquée, vol. 38, no. 3/4, 1985.
23. (with L.A. Gérard-Varet and R. Jordan): "Information, communication et planification", Report for the Commissariat Général du Plan, July 1985.
24. (with C. Oddou and S. Weber): "Stochastic communication and coalition formation", Econometrica, January 1986.
25. "La communication in économie", Les Cahiers STS, Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1986.
26. (with K. Koch): "Market excess demand functions: idintical preferinces and collinear indowmints", Review of Economic Studies, vol. 53:3, 1986, pp. 457-63.
Articles on : 27. Pareto as an Economic Theorist 28. G. Antonelli 29. Combinatorics in Economics 30. Graph Theory in Economics 31. Atomistic Competition 32. Measure Theory in Economics in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell and P. Newman (eds.), Macmillan, London, 1987.
33. (with L.A. Gérard-Varet and R. Jordan): "Dynamique des stocks et équilibre budgétaire dans un modèle où les prix sont contraints à la baisse", in Macro-dynamique et Déséquilibre, J.P. Fitoussi and P.A. Muet (eds.), Economica, Paris, 1987, chapter 10.
34. "Economic research and consultancy: the case of Britain and France", World Economic Herald, Shanghai, November 1987.
35. "The intrinsic limits of economic theory: the emperor has no clothes", Economic Journal, supplement, vol. 99, no. 395, 1989, pp. 126-39.
36. "L'importance des réseaux en économie", Mathématique et Informatique pour les Sciences Humaines, 106, 1989, pp. 5-15.
37. "On the instability of Walrasian economics", in Non-Linear Dynamics in Economics and Social Sciences, M. Galeotti, L. Geronazzo and F. Gori (eds.), Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 1989.
38. "La formation des prix", report no. 58/86 for the Commissariat Général du Plan, September 1989.
39. "On the value of game theory", (in Italian) in La Teoria dei Giochi e La Politica Economica, L. Spaventa (ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1989.
40. (with N. Schueller): "Price leadership and discrimination in the European car market", Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 34, September 1990.
41. (with A. Vignes): "Price dispersion. Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from the Marseille fish market", in Issues in Contemporary Economics, K.J. Arrow (ed.), Macmillan, London, 1991.
42. Review of Economic Complexity: Chaos Sunspots, Bubbles and Non Linearity, W. Barnett et al (eds.), Economic Journal, 1991.
43. "What or whom does the representative individual represent?", Journal of Economic Perspectives , vol. 6, 2, (spring 1992), pp. 117-36.
44. (with L.A. Gérard-Varet and R. Jordan): "A model of temporary equilibria with stochastic quantity rationing", in Economic Decision-Making: Games, Econometrics and Optimisation (Contributions in honour of Jacques H. Drèze), J. Gabszewicz, J.F. Richard and L.A. Wolsey (eds.), North Holland, 1990, pp. 33-65.
45. (with L. Reichlin): "L'aide aux pays de l'Est: les leçons du Plan Marshall", Observations et Diagnostics Economiques, November 1990 and A l'Est in Europe, J.P. Fitoussi (ed.), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1990.
46. (with N. Schueller): "Market structure, producer costs and location. An alternative view of pricing in the European car market", chapter 5 (pp. 77-104), International Trade Modelling, M.G. Dagenais and P.A. Muet (eds.), Chapman & Hall, London, 1992.
47. "Epidemics of opinion and speculative bubbles in financial markets", chapter 17 (pp.354-68) of Money and Financial Markets, M. Taylor (ed.), Macmillan, London, 1991.
48. "Information, communication et coordination", Economie Appliquée, vol. XLIV, 1, pp. 105-124, 1991.
49. Comment on "Cycles and non-stationary equilibrium search", by C. Fershtman and A. Fishman, in N. Thygesen, K. Velupillai and S. Zambelli (eds.), Business Cycles: Theories, Evidence and Analysis, Macmillan, London, 1991.
50. (with V. Brousseau): "Apparent convergence of learning processes in mis-specified games", in B. Dutta et al. (eds.), Game Theory and Economic Applications, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992.
51. (with K. Binmore and P. Tani), "Famous gamesters", introduction to K. Binmore, A.P. Kirman and P. Tani (eds.), Frontiers of Game Theory, M.I.T. Press, 1993.
52. (with V. Brousseau), "The dynamics of learning in n-person games with the wrong n", in K. Binmore, A.P. Kirman and P. Tani (eds.), Frontiers of Game Theory, M.I.T. Press, 1993.
53. "Variety: the coexistence of techniques", Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 59, 1, pp. 62-74, 1992.
54. "Ants, rationality and recruitment", Quarterly Journal of Economics, pp. 137-56, February 1993.
55. (with X. Calsamiglia): "A unique informationally efficient and decentralized mechanism with fair outcomes", Econometrica, vol. 61, 5 (September), pp. 1147-72, 1993.
56. (with M. Dahl), "Economic research in Europe", European Economic Review, 38, nos. 3/4, April 1994, pp. 505-522.
57. "Economic research in Europe: inputs and outputs", Royal Economic Society Newsletter, 85, April 1994.
58. "Learning in Oligopoly: Theory, Simulation, and Experimental Evidence", in A. Kirman and M. Salmon (eds.), Learning and Rationality in Economics, Basil Blackwell, 1995.
59. (with W. Härdle), "Non classical demand: a model-free examination of price quantity relations in the Marseille fish market", Journal of Econometrics, 67, 1995.
60. "The Behaviour of the Foreign Exchange Market. Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin,. 15 (August): 286-293., 1995.
61. (with L. Phlips), "Empirical studies of product markets", in B. Allen (ed.), Economics in a Changing World, vol. 2, Macmillan and St . Martin's Press, London, chapter 13, pp. 297-330., 1997.
62. "Information flows in the foreign exchange market: Comment", in The Microstructure of the Foreign Exchange Markets, J. Frankel, G. Galli and A. Giovannini (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 1996.
63. (with L. Phlips), “Exchange rate pass-through and market structure”, Journal of Economics vol. 64 pp. 129-154 (1996).
64. (with M. Widgren), "Voting in the European Union: European Economic Decision-making Policy: Progress or Paralysis ?" Economic Policy, vol. 22, pp.421-460, (1995).
65. "The Economy as an Interactive System" in K.J. Arrow, L. Blume, S. Durlauf, eds The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, Redwood City, CA, Addison-Wesley. (1997)
66. "The Evolution of Economic Theory" in Is Economics Becoming a Hard Science ? (edited by A D'Autume and J Cartelier), 1997
67. (with G. Weisbuch & D Herreiner), (1997), "Market Organisation", in Simulating Social Phenomena, (eds: R Conte, R Hegeslmann & P Terna), Springer Verlag. Berlin,.
68. "The Economy as an Evolving Network",(1997) , Journal of Evolutionary Economics
69. "Information et Prix" in L'Economie de l'Information ( P.Petit, ed.) La Decouverte, Paris, 1998
70. "Economies with Interacting Agents" in The Economics of Networks, Ed. Cohendet et al., Springer Verlag, Berlin,1998 pp17-51
71. "Self-Organization and Evolution in Economics" in Evolution and Self-Organization in Economics, Ed. Frank Schweitzer and Gerald Silverberg, Duncker & Humblot. Berlin, 1998
72. "Vilfredo Pareto", in Italian Economists of the 20th Century, Edward Elgar, Oxford. 1998
73. (with W. Hildenbrand) "The Core and Competititve Equilibrium" in Elements of General Equilibrium Analysis, Blackwell 1998
74. (with G Weisbuch, O Chenevez, & J-P Nadal),(1998) "A Formal Approach to Market Organization: Choice Functions, Mean Field Approximation and Maximum Entropy Principle", in Advances in Self-Organization and Evolutionary Economics , Edited by Jacques Lesourne and André Orlean, Economica pp.149-159
75. "Market Organization", (1998), in Advances in Self-Organization and Evolutionary Economics , Edited by Jacques Lesourne and André Orlean, Economica pp.160 182
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101. "Ranking European Economic Departments: a Statistical Approach" Michel Lubrano, Luc Bauwens, Alan Kirman et Camelia Protopopescu, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol 1, pp. 1367 à 1401 2003
102. Economic Networks in Handbook of Graphs and Networks, eds. Stefan Bornholdt, Heinz Georg Schuster, Wiley-VCH Weinheim 2003
103. (with Stéphane Luchini and Jean-Paul Moatti), "Can Economic Analysis Contribute to the Current Debate on Access to HIV/AIDS Care in Developing Countries", Revue d'Economie Publique n° 12, pp. 131-151, 2003
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Working papers
· (with J.M. Grandmont), "Foreign exchange: a temporary general equilibrium approach", CORE Discussion Paper 7308.
· (with A.K. Dixit), "On problems of incentive compatibility with rationing schemes in Keynesian models", mimeo, University of Warwick, 1977.
· "Testing for bubbles", mimeo, European University Institute, Florence, 1994.
· (with G. Weisbuch et D. Herreiner), "Market Organisation", Santa Fe Institute Working Paper no. 95-11-02. "Economies with Interacting Agents", Working paper, GREQAM, Marseille, 1996.
· "On The Transitory Nature of Gurus", Paper presented at the Arne Ryde Symposium on Focal Points, Lund, Août 1997.
· "Evolutionary Thinking in a Neo-classical Economic Theory ", Document de Travail No 98C06 GREQAM, 2 rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille, Juin 1998.
· "Microéconomic models for long memory in the volatility of financial time series", Alan Kirman & Gilles Teyssière, CORE, Discussion paper, 2002/56, mars 2002.
· "Bubbles and long-range dependence in ASSET prices volatilities", Alan Kirman & Gilles Teyssière, CORE  Discussion paper 2002/60, octobre 2002.
· (with Delli Gatti, Domenico, Gaffeo, Edoardo, Giulioni, Gianfranco, Gallegati, Mauro, Palestrini, Antonio and Russo, Alberto), "Complex Dynamics and Empirical Evidence", SSRN working paper, May 5, 2004.
· (with U.Horst et M.Teschl, “Changing Identity : The emergence of social groups” Working paper GREQAM 2006.
· (with Sonia Moulet), 2008. "Impact de l’organisation du marché: Comparaison de la négociation de gré à gré et des enchères descendantes," Working Papers halshs-00349034_v1, HAL. [Downloadable!]
· (with David Colander & Hans Föllmer & Armin Haas & Michael Goldberg & Katarina Juselius & Thomas Lux & Brigitte Sloth,) 2009. "The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics," Kiel Working Papers 1489, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. [Downloadable!]
· (with M. Gallegati, G. Giulioni and A. Palestrini) "What’s that got to do with the price of fish? Buyers behavior on the Ancona fish market " Working paper GREQAM- 2010-54
· (with K. Anand and M. Marsili) "Epidemics of rules, information aggregation failure and market crashes" Working paper GREQAM- 2010-55
· "Barbut, Lévy, Les marchés efficaces et Arrow" Working paper GREQAM 2010-56
· "Learning in agent based models" Working paper GREQAM - 2010-57
· "Walras’ unfortunate legacy" A. Kirman Working paper GREQAM - 2010-58