Prof. Ziv Hellman
CV
EDUCATION:
| A.B. in Mathematics | Princeton University |
| M.A. in Mathematics | University of California at San Diego |
| Ph.D in Mathematics | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the Centre for the Study of Rationality) |
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC AFFILATIONS/APPOINTMENTS:
| Post-Doctoral Fellow | Tel Aviv University, School of Mathematical Sciences |
My Erdős number is 3
GRANTS AWARDED:
Israel Science Foundation, Individual Researcher Grant 1626/18
Israel Science Foundation, Individual Researcher Grant 448/22 (joint with Yuval Heller)
Israel Science Foundation, Individual Researcher Grant 458/25 (joint with Yuval Heller)
MY POST-DOC FELLOWS:
Itay Kavaler
Yevgeny Tsodikovich
MY PhD STUDENTS:
Yonatan Cahan
MY MASTER'S STUDENTS:
Yoav Kashi
MY CV:
FULL CV
PhD THESIS:
Common Priors and Uncommon Priors
PATENTS:
Run-time architecture for enterprise integration with transformation generation, U.S. Patent 7,146,399 B2 (co-invention)
Method and system for collaborative ontology modelling, U.S. Patent 7,099,885 and European Patent Office Publication No. EP 1,260,916 (co-invention)
Enterprise information unification, U.S. Patent 7,673,282 (co-invention)
Method and system for mapping enterprise data assets to a semantic information model, U.S. Patent 7,877,421 (co-invention)
Run-time architecture for enterprise integration with transformation generation, U.S. Patent 7,930,292 (co-invention)
Method and system for deriving a transformation by referring schema to a central model, European Patent Office Publication EP 1,327,941 (co-invention)
Books
Translator of the book Game Theory, by Michael Maschler, Eilon Solan, and Shmuel Zamir, Cambridge University Press, 2013
Publications
Published
Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning (with Srinivas Arigapudi, Omer Edhan, and Yuval Heller), Theoretical Economics, forthcoming
Game Changing Mutation (with Omer Edhan), Royal Society Open Science, 12:241951, April 2025
Habit Forming Consumers and Firm Dynamics (with Arthur Fishman and Avi Weiss), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 154, September 2023
Charges and Bets: A General Characterisation of Common Priors (with Miklos Pinter), International Journal of Game Theory, 51 (3), (2022), pp. 567–587
Making the Most of Potential: Potential Games and Genotypic Convergence (with Omer Edhan and Ilan Nehama), Royal Society Open Science, 8:210309, August 2021
Equilibria Existence in Bayesian Games: Climbing the Countable Borel Equivalence Relation Hierarchy (with Yehuda Levy), Mathematics of Operations Research, available on-line
Dense Orbits of the Bayesian Updating Group Action (with Yehuda Levy), Mathematics of Operations Research, Published on-line in MOOR Articles in Advance 24 May 2021
A Survey on Entropy and Economic Behaviour (with Ron Peretz), Entropy, 22(2), 157 (2020) (Special Issue: Information Theory for Control, Games, and Decision Problems)
No Trade and Yes Trade Theorems for Heterogeneous Priors (with Alia Gizatulina), Journal of Economic Theory, 182, (2019) pp. 161-184
Measurable Selection for Purely Atomic Games (with Yehuda Levy), Econometrica, 87 (2), (2019), pp. 593-629
Indexing Gamble Desirability By Extending Proportional Stochastic Dominance (with Amnon Schreiber), Games and Economic Behavior, 109 (2018), pp. 532–543
Values for Cooperative Games over Graphs and Games with Inadmissible Coalitions (with Ron Peretz), Games and Economic Behavior, 108 (2018), pp.22–36 (Special Edition in Memory of Lloyd Shapley)
Bayesian Games With a Continuum of States (with Yehuda Levy), Theoretical Economics, 12 (2017), pp. 1089–1120
Sex with No Regrets (with Omer Edhan and Dana Sherill), Journal of Theoretical Biology, 426 (2017), pp. 67–81
A Game with No Bayesian Approximate Equilibria, Journal of Economic Theory, 153 (2014), pp. 138-151
Countable Spaces and Common Priors, International Journal of Game Theory, 43 (1), (2014), pp. 193-213
Weakly Rational Expectations, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 49 (6), (2013), pp. 496 - 500
Spectrum Value for Coalitional Games (with Mikel Alvarez and Eyal Winter), Games and Economic Behavior, 82 (2013), pp. 132 - 142
Almost Common Priors, International Journal of Game Theory, 42 (2), (2013), pp. 399 - 410
How Common are Common Priors (with Dov Samet), Games and Economic Behavior, 74 (2012), pp. 517 - 525
Iterated Expectations, Compact Spaces and Common Priors, Games and Economic Behavior, 72 (2011), pp. 163 - 171
Modeling the Micro-Foundations of Routine Formation (with Amit Gal), Proceedings of the Academy of Management, 1 (2010), pp. 1 - 6
- Structural Conflict Avoidance in Collaborative Ontology Engineering (with Amit Gal), Enterprise Systems V, Kluver Academic Publications, (2004), pp. 216 - 225
Revise and Resubmit
Working Papers
- Posteriors are Prior to Priors (joint with Miklos Pinter)
Research
Game Theory, Rationality, Interactive Epistemology, Evolutionary Theory
Courses
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Last Updated Date : 21/06/2026