| Antonio Camacho | ||
| Professor Emeritus | ||
| Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1965 (Economics) Ph.D., Universidad Complutense, 1970 (Mathematics) | ||
| Phone: (312) 996-8651 | ||
| Fax: (312) 996-3344 | ||
| E-Mail: ACamacho@uic.edu | ||
| Homepage: http://www.uic.edu/depts/cba/cba-depts/economics/camacho.html | ||
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Fields of Interest:
Decision making under uncertainty; Social Choice; Utility Theory, Information Economics; The Economics of Organization of Business Enterprises; Centralization and Decentralization. Division of Labor, Variability, Coordination, and The Logic of Firms and Markets, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, 196 pages. "Adaptation Costs, Coordination Costs and Optimal Firm Size," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 15, (1991), pp. 137-149. "The Internal Organization of Complex Teams: Bounded Rationality and the Logic of Hierarchies", (with J.S. Persky), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 9, (1988), pp. 367-385. Societies and Social Decision Functions: A Model with Focus on the Information Problem, Theory and Decision Library, Vol. 30. Dordrecht; Reidel, 1982. "Performance of Decentralized and Centralized Decision Making Mechanisms Over a Class of Linear Cases," Journal of Comparative Economics, 3, (1979), pp. 91-115. "Maximizing Expected Utility and the Role of Long Run Success", in Maurice Allais and Ole Hagen (eds.), Expected Utility and the Allais' Paradox: Contemporary Discussions with Allais' Rejoinder, Theory and Decision Library, Vol. 21. Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel, (1979), pp. 203-222. Current Research Interests:
Theory of Firms and Markets.
Title of Monograph in preparation "Market and Firm: A New Conception; An Abstract Theory."
The crucial assumptions in the topics of research listed above are: (1) variability, (2) division of labor, and (3) required coordination. No self interest or strategic behavior is assumed of the participants.
Other Significant Accomplishments: Fulbright Scholar, Summer 1989 Named Distinguished Son of El Paso, Tenerife, Spain, June 1993.
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