April 2024
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John P. Conley
Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University
414 Calhoun Hall
Nashville, TN 37235
Tel: 615-322-2920
j.p.conley@vanderbilt.edu
http://jpconley.com
Citizenship
USA
Fields of Interest
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Economics
CrytpoEconomics
Mechanism Design
Cooperative Game Theory
Noncooperative Game Theory
General Equilibrium Theory
Public Economics
Science of Science
Education
1990 Ph.D., Economics University of Rochester
1987 Master of Arts University of Rochester
1984 Bachelor of Arts University of Chicago
Professional
2002-Present: Professor, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
2018-Present: Chief Economist, The Geeq Project
2016-17: Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
2012 (June): Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
2009 (June): Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Paris, France
2004 (August): Visitor, Academia, Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 (June): Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
2001-2002, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1996-2001: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1996-1997: Visiting Scholar, Departments of Economics, Harvard University and Boston University (Joint appointment)
1989-1996: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Editorial Boards
2000-Present: Editor Economics Bulletin
1997-2020 Editor Journal of Public Economic Theory
Advisory Positions
2017-Present: FinTech Advisor Impact Venture Capital
2017-2018: Technical Advisor The Geeq Project
Academic Service
2007-Present: Scholarly Communications Portal Editor of AccessEcon.com
2016-2017: Board of Directors, Open Academic Society
2002-2016: Vice President of the Association for Public Economic Theory
1997-2002: President of the Association for Public Economic Theory
Continuous: Reviewer and referee for many journals, publishers, departments, and granting, agencies
Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
John P. Conley (2024) “AI Needs Blockchain: Trustless Solutions to Failures in Machine to Colloidal Markets” MARBLE Conference Proceedings, (5th International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy), Forthcoming
John P. Conley (2024) “Countably Infinite Public Goods and the Internet Economy” Annals of Regional Science, Forthcoming
John P. Conley, Robert Driskill and Ping Wang (2019) “Capitalization, Decentralization, and Intergenerational Spillovers in a Tiebout Economy with a Durable Public Good”, Economic Theory, Vol. 67, pp. 1–27
John Conley, Ali Sina Önder and Benno Torgler (2016) “Are all Graduate Cohorts Created Equal? Gender, Unemployment, and Research Productivity”, Scientometrics, Vol. 108, pp. 937–958
John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder (2014) “The Research Productivity of New Ph.D.s in Economics: the Surprisingly High Non-Success of the Successful”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 28, pp. 205–216
John P. Conley and William Neilson (2013) “Endogenous Coordination and Discoordination Games: Multiculturalism and Assimilation”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 92, pp. 176–191
John P. Conley Mario Crucini, Robert Driskill and Ali Sina Önder (2013) “The Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics”, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 51, pp. 1251–127
John P. Conley and Simon Wilkie (2012) “Ordinal Egalitarian Solution for Finite Choice Sets”, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 38, pp. 23-42
Ergin Bayrak, John P. Conley and Simon Wilkie (2011) “The Economics of Cloud Computing”, Korean Economic Review, Vol. 27, pp. 203-230
John P. Conley and Fan-chin Kung (2010) “Private Benefits, Warm Glow and Reputation in the Free and Open Source Software Production Model”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, (Special issue edited by Ted Bergstrom, Parkash Chander and Lise Vesterlund), Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 665-689
John P. Conley and Christopher Yoo (2009) “Nonrivalry and Price Discrimination in Copyright Economics”. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 101–130
John P. Conley and William Neilson (2009) “Endogenous Games and Equilibrium Adaptation of Social Norms and Ethical Constraints”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 6, pp. 761-774
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2009) “But What Have You Done for Me Lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access”, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 39, pp. 71–89
Nizar Allouch, John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2009) “Anonymous Price Taking Equilibrium in Tiebout Economies with a Continuum of Agents; Existence and Characterization”, Journal of Mathematical Economics (lead article), Vol. 45, pp. 492–510
John P. Conley, Ali Toossi and Myrna Wooders (2006) “Memetics and Voting: How Nature Makes us Public Spirited”, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 35, pp.71–90
John P. Conley and Ping Wang (2006) “Crime and Ethics”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 60, pp. 107–123
John P. Conley and Stefani Smith (2005) “Coasian Equilibrium”, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 41, pp. 687–704
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2004) “Hedonic Independence and the Taste-Homogeneity of Optimal Jurisdictions in Tiebout Economy Crowding Types”, Annals of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75-76, pp. 197–219
Bhaskar Chakravorti and John P. Conley (2004) “Bargaining Efficiency and the repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma”, Economics Bulletin, 2004, Vol. 3 pp. 1-8
John P. Conley and Manfred Dix (2003) “Beneficial Inequality in the Provision of Municipal Services: Why Rich Neighborhoods should get Plowed First”, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, pp. 731–745
John P. Conley and Stefani Smith (2003) “Finite Decentralization in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types”, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 20, pp. 49–75
John P. Conley and Hideo Konishi (2002) “Migration-Proof Tiebout Equilibrium: Existence and Asymptotic Efficiency”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol 86, pp. 243–62
Bhaskar Chakravorti, John P. Conley and Bart Taub (2002) “Probabilistic Cheap Talk”, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 19, pp. 281–294
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2001) “Tiebout Economies Differential Genetic Types and Endogenously Chosen Crowding Characteristics”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 98, pp. 261–294
John P. Conley and Akram Temimi (2001) “Endogenous Enfranchisement when Groups’ Preferences are Conflicting”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 109, pp. 79–102
John P. Conley and Manfred Dix (1999) “Optimal and Equilibrium Membership in Clubs in the Presence of Spillovers”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 46, 1999, pp. 215-229
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1998) “Anonymous Lindahl Prices in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types”, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 31, pp. 952–974
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1997) “Equivalence of the Core and Competitive Equilibrium in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 41, pp. 421–440
Bhaskar Chakravorti, John P. Conley and Bart Taub (1997) “On Uniquely Implementing Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Corrigendum”, Economic Theory, Vol. 9, pp. 377–378
John Boyd III and John P. Conley (1997) “Fundamental Nonconvexities in Arrovian Markets and a Coasian Solution to the Problem of Externalities”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 72, pp. 388–407
John P. Conley Rich McLean and Simon Wilkie (1997) “Reference Functions and Possibility Theorems for Cardinal Social Choice Problems”, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 14, pp. 65–78
Bhaskar Chakravorti, John P. Conley and Bart Taub (1996) “On Uniquely Implementing Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma”, Economic Theory, Vol. 80, pp. 347–66
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1996) “Taste-Homogeneity of Optimal Jurisdictions in a Tiebout Economy Crowding Types and Endogenous Educational Investment Choices”, Recherché Economiche, Vol. 50, pp. 367–387
John P. Conley and Simon Wilkie (1996) “An Extension of the Nash Bargaining Solution to Nonconvex Problems”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 13, pp. 26–38
John P. Conley and Dimitrios Diamantaras (1996) “Generalized Samuelson and Welfare Theorems for Nonsmooth Economies”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 59, pp. 137–152
John P. Conley and William Maloney (1995) “Optimal Sequencing of Credible Reforms Uncertain Outcomes”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 48, pp. 151–163
Bhaskar Chakravorti and John P. Conley (1995) “Cheap Play with No Regret”, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 24, pp. 223–237
John P. Conley and Simon Wilkie (1995) “Implementing the Nash Extension Bargaining Solution for Non-Convex Problems”, Economic Design, Vol. 1, pp. 205–216
John P. Conley (1994) “Convergence Theorems on the Core of a Public Goods Economy: Sufficient Conditions”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 62, pp. 161–185
John P. Conley (1993) “Speed of Convergence and Stopping Rules in an Iterative Planning Procedure for Nonconvex Economies”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 17, pp. 737–767
John P. Conley and Simon Wilkie, (1991) “The Bargaining Problem without Convexity : Extending the Egalitarian and Kalai-Smorodinsky Solutions”, Economics Letters, Vol. 36, pp. 365–369. (Reprinted in Bargaining And The Theory Of Cooperative Games: John Nash And Beyond, Edited by William Thomson, and Elmer B. Milliman, Edmond Elger, 2011)
Books
John P. Conley (2024) “The Economics of Information and Communications Technology” (Open Access Textbook)
John P. Conley (2023) “Microeconomics for Smarter Students” (Open access textbook)
Chapters
John P. Conley, Mario J. Crucini, Robert A. Driskill and Ali Sina Önder (2020) “Publication lags and the research output of young economists” in Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics, Sebastian Galiani and Ugo Panizza, editors, CEPR PRESS, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK
Edward Cartwright, John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2005) “The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies”, in The Tiebout Model at fifty : Essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates, William A. Fischel, editor, Lincoln Land Institute, Cambridge, MA
John P. Conley and Stephanie Smith (2003) “Coalitions and Clubs: Existence, Decentralization, and Optimality”, in Group Formation in Economics : Networks, Clubs, and Coalitions Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders, editors, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Bhaskar Chakravorti, John P. Conley and Bart Taub (1999) “Economic Applications of Probabilistic Cheap Talk”, in Topics in Mathematical Economics and Game Theory: Essays in Honor of Robert Aumann, M. Wooders, editor, Fields Institute Communication, Toronto, pp. 153–170
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1997) “Anonymous Pricing in Public Goods Economies”, in Topics in Public Economics, D. Pines, E. Sadka, and I. Zilcha, editors, Cambridge University Press, pp. 89–120
Book Reviews, Editorials and Other Publications
John P. Conley (2019) “Libra’s Monetary Economics and Consumer Wealth”
John P. Conley (2018) “Zero or Moon: What’s Up with the Price of Ethereum?”
John P. Conley (2018) “ETFs Rule, Stablecoins Drool: How to Make Cryptocurrencies go Mainstream”
John P. Conley, (2012) “Low acceptance rates, commercial publishing, and the future of scholarly communication”, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 4 p. A37 (Letter to the Editor)
John P. Conley, Mario Crucini, Robert Driskill and Ali Sina Önder (2011) “Publication lags and young economists’ research output”, VOX, 24. October
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2009) “The Journal of Public Economic Theory at Ten Years Old”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 10, pp. 1-5 (Editorial Comment)
John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1999) “Public Economic Theory”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 1, pp.1-13 (Editorial Comment)
John P. Conley (1995) Book review of “Rejected: Leading Economists Ponder the Publication Process”, edited by George B. Shepherd, Thomas Horton and Daughters, Sun Lakes, AZ, for International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 6 pp. 441–2
White Papers and Working Papers
John P. Conley (2024) “AI Needs Blockchain: Trustless Solutions to Failures in Machine to Colloidal Markets” Manuscript, (A complete version of: John P. Conley (2024) “Blockchain-Based Identity Solutions for Artificial Intelligence: Two-sided Virtual Markets without Trust ” that includes a formal treatment of the game theory and other elements omitted in the interest of page limitations.)
John P. Conley (2019) “Proof of Honesty: Coalition-Proof Blockchain Validation without Proof of Work or Stake”
John P. Conley, (2019) “Blockchain as a Decentralized Mechanism for Financial Inclusion and Economic Mobility”, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00012
John P. Conley, (2019) “Economic Implications of New Technologies for Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum”, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00011
John P. Conley, (2019) “Encryption, Hashing, PPK, and Blockchain: A Simple Introduction”, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00013
John P. Conley, (2017) “Blockchain and the Economics of Crypto-tokens and Initial Coin Offerings”, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-17-00008
John P. Conley, (2017) “Blockchain Cryptocurrency Backed with Full Faith and Credit”, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-17-00007
Panels, Public and Named Lectures
November 2022 Bitcoin’s Legacy and Blockchain’s Future, Vandeveer Chair Public Lecture In Economics, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale Slides
October 2020 Opportunities and Trends in the Tech Industry Post COVID 19, Invited Panel GCC BDI Online Networking Event Dubai (Virtual)
October 2019: Crypto Economics and Security Conference – Berkeley, Invited Lecture: “Game Theory of Distributed Systems” Slides Video
October 2019: San Francisco Blockchain Week – Macro.wtf, Invited Panel: “Monetary Systems in an International Context”
March 2019: World Bank Mini Boot Camp Crypto, Invited Lectures: “Information and ICT Economics: What Do We know?”
– ICT and Economic Analysis: Discipline Disruption or Old Wine In New Bottles? Slides
– Blockchain and Crypto Economics: An Example and Deeper Dive. Slides
February 2019: DARPA, Applications and Barriers to Consensus Protocols (ABC), Invited Speaker: “Making Blockchain Secure at the Edge” Slides
November 2018: San Francisco Chapter, Vanderbilt Alumni Association, Public Lecture: “An introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin, and CryptoEconomics” Slides
November 2018: Portland, Oregon, Chapter, Vanderbilt Alumni Association, Public Lecture: “An introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin, and CryptoEconomics” Slides
May 2018: Moderator for the Expert Panel on Blockchain Industry & Policy, Impact 2018 Global Venture Summit.
April 2018: Tennessee Tech University, 20th Annual Window on the World Symposium, Public Lecture “An Introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin and CryptoEconomics” Slides Video
February 2018: Golden Triangle Angel Network, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, Public Lecture: “Blockchain: Really?” Slides
January 2018: Metro New York Chapter Vanderbilt Alumni Association, Public Lecture: “An introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin, and CryptoEconomics” Slides
April 2017: Rice University Conference on Business and the Blockchain: Public Lecture: “The Economics Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings” Slides Video
July 2014, International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) Conference, Duke University, Plenary Speaker: “Theory and the Coase Theorem” Slides
June 2013: Erasmus Distinguished Lectures on the Frontiers of Economic Theory, (Inaugural lecture in this series), Paris School of Economics – Université Paris 1, Named Lectures:
– Part 1 “The Economics of Cloud Computing” Slides
– Part 2 “Theory: What is it good for?” Slides
– Part 3 “Using Coalition and Network Theory” Slides
November 2012: MSPE University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Public Lecture: “The Economics of Cloud Computing” Slides
November 2012: Southern Economic Association Meetings, Invited Panel of Journal Editors to Advise Young Economists
June 2011: North American Summer Meeting of the, Econometric Society, Invited Panel to Advise Young Economists
April 2011: Gosnell Lecture – Rochester Institute of Technology: Named Lecture: “The Economics of Cloud Computing” Slides
November 2007 Office for Information Management – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Invited Lecture: “Current State of Electronic Academic Publishing” Slides
July 2007 Georgia State University, Invited Lecture: “Current State of Research in Public Economics” Notes
Conference Organization
2024 Co-organizer, Decentralization Conference, 2024, Vanderbilt University
2024 Technical Program Committee: MARBLE 2024, The 5th International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
2023 Organizing Committee, Decentralization Conference, University of Michigan
2023 Technical Program Committee: MARBLE 2023, The 4th International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
2020: Technical Program Committee: MARBLE 2022, The 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
2021: Technical Program Committee: MARBLE 2021, The 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
2019: Technical Program Committee: MARBLE 2019, The 1st International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
2019: Organizing Committee SEAT 2019
2019: Organizing Committee, Decentralization Conference, University of Michigan
2014: Organizing Committee, PET14, Seattle, WA
2013: Scientific Committee, UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal
2013: Organizing Committee, Committee, PET13, Lisbon, Portugal
2012: Organizing Committee, PET12, Taipei, Taiwan
2011: Program committee, Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal
2011: Program committee, North American Summer Econometric Society meetings, St. Louis, MO
2011: Program Committee, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory meetings, Faro, Portugal
2011: Organizing Committee, PET workshop on the Political Economy of Development, Bangkok, Thailand
2011: Organizing Committee, PET11, Bloomington, IN
2011: Organizing Committee, PET10, Istanbul, Turkey
2009: Organizing Committee, PET09, Galway, Ireland
2008: Organizing Committee, PET08, Seoul, Korea
2007: Main Organizer, PET 07, Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
2006: Co-Organizer of the Externalities, Public Goods and Games workshop at Stony Brook Summer Game Theory Festival, Stony Brook, NY
2006: Organizing Committee, PET 06, Hanoi, Vietnam
2005: Organizing Committee PET05, Marseilles, France
2005: Organizing Committee, Midwest Mathecon Meetings, Nashville, TN
2004: Organizing Committee PET04, Beijing, China
2004: Organizer, Taipei Conference on Public Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2003: Co-Chair, Organizing committee, PET 2003. Duke University, NC
2002: Organizing committee, PET 2002 University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2000: Organizing committee, PET 2000, University of Warwick, U.K
1999: Session organizer, Economic Theory Meetings, Rodos, Greece
1999: Organizing committee, Warwick Conference on the Environment and Economies in Transition, Warwick, UK
1998: Program committee, Social Choice Society Conference, Vancouver, Canada
1998: Program committee, 3rd Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Spain
1998: Co-organizer: Association for Public Economic Theory Meetings (Inaugural Meeting of APET), Tuscaloosa, AL
1998: Session organizer, Public Choice Society meetings, New Orleans, LA
1997: Session organizer, Public Choice Society Meetings, San Francisco, CA
1996: Session organizer, Public Choice Society Meeting, Houston, TX