Olivier Gossner
FELLOW
CERAS, URA CNRS
Olivier is a professor at CERAS, URA CNRS, Paris. His research interests are bounded rationality, information transmission and strategic value of information, and repeated games.
2004-2005
Fabrizio Germano
FELLOW
Pompeu Fabra University
Fabrizio is a professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research interest is game theory.
Foundations of Technology-Assisted Trading
[RG #99] Foundations of Technology-Assisted Trading
September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004
Organizers:
Daniel Lehmann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Motty Perry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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The emergence of the Internet, about half a decade ago, is causing significant changes to society at large and to several academic disciplines in particular. Technologically-Assisted Trading (known colloquially as e-commerce) is now becoming a focus of increasing research interest at the boundary between Economics and Computer Science. While the first boom-and-bust cycle of these changes has passed, it is clear that profound changes still await us and that it will take society some time to fully develop all the consequences as well as adopt many of the new technical possibilities.
The group will conduct a program of interdisciplinary research on one of the most important new possibilities opened up by the internet: electronic commerce. Which much practical work has been done on the "mechanics" of electronic conmmerce (communication protocols, security, software tools, cash transfers, etc.), less attention has been paid to understand the nature of the content that is is supposed to be delivered by these "mechanics". In other words, what are the economic mechanisms that will or should be implemented by such "mechanics"?
We believe that there are theoretical foundations for electronic commerce and that the time is ripe to start formulating them.
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Dina Stein
FELLOW
Graduate Theological Union
Dina is a professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her research interests are the dynamics of cultural imagination in rabbinic literature, and self-reflective aspects of rabbinic discourse.
Haviva Pedaya
FELLOW
Ben-Gurion University
Haviva is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests are Jewish sources from the Hebrew Bible through the medieval Kabbalah.
Ronit Meroz
FELLOW
Tel Aviv University
Ronit is a professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbalah at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are Jewish mysticism (especially Book Bahir, the Book of Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah).
Elhanan Reiner
FELLOW
Tel Aviv University
Elhanan is a professor in the Department of History of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Early Modern Europe, and Jewish medieval popular religion in Palestine.
Joshua Levinson
FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joshua is a professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: narrative theory and hermeneutics; Rabbinic literature; and the rewritten Bible.
Richard Kalmin
FELLOW
Jewish Theological Seminary
Richard is a professor in the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. His research interests are the history and literature of the Jews of Late Antiquity.
Karl Grözinger
FELLOW
University of Potsdam
Karl is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research interests are: history of Jewish thought (theology, philosophy, mysticism); interdependence among theology, philosophy and mysticism.
Literary Dimensions of Medieval Jewish Religious Discourse
[RG #100] Literary Dimensions of Medieval Jewish Religious Discourse
September 1, 2004 - February 28, 2005
Organizer:
Ronit Meroz (Tel Aviv University)
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The goal of this study group is to explore religious systems by scrutinizing the meeting point -- within the cultural context -- of the religious discourse and the literary means chosen to express it; to raise such questions as the relations between different genres and their religious or ideational system, or their social, historical and cultural context.
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Asher Wolinsky
FELLOW
Northwestern University
Asher is a professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, USA. His research interests are economic theory with much of the focus on game theoretic models of markets and institutions.
