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    Dr Ashley James Piggins BA(HONS), MPHIL, PHD, PGCHET

    Contact Details

    Title Senior Lecturer
    Address Dept of Economics
    Nui, Galway.
    Telephone: Ext. 2300
    Email:
    ei.yawlagiun@sniggip.yelhsa

     

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    Biography:

    Ashley teaches economics in the J. E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics and leads the "Group Decision Making" research cluster in the IBSSPP.

    His research lies at the intersection of economics, political science and philosophy.  He is interested in welfare economics, social choice theory, game theory, philosophy of economics and electoral systems (particularly the U.S. Electoral College).

    Ashley has published in leading international journals, including Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Sciences, Economics and Philosophy, and the Journal of Logic and Computation.

    Ashley has given invited research seminars at Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris School of Economics, University of Bath, University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast, Université de Caen, Universidad de Murcia, Universität Osnabrück, University of St. Andrews, University of East Anglia, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, London School of Economics, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.


    Ashley has taught at the University of Nottingham, University of Bristol, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.

    Research Interests

    Microeconomic theory; in particular, social choice theory, welfare economics, game theory.

    Research Projects

    Project: SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY AND DELIBERATE DEMOCRACY TOWARDS A RECONCILLIATION IRCHSS CARA POSTDOCTORAL MOBILITY FELLOWSHIP DR CONAL DUDDY ( RCS991)
    Role: ROLE_DESC
    Description: DESCRIPTION
    Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-11 / 30-SEP-14
    Project: IRCSET ULYSSES ASHLEY PIGGINS RESEARCH VISITS 2009 ( RCS802)
    Role: ROLE_DESC
    Description: DESCRIPTION
    Start/End Dates: 01-JAN-09 / 21-DEC-09
     

    Book Chapters

    Piggins, A; Garcia-Lapresta, J-L (2011) 'Voting on how to vote' In: Rudolf Seising, Veronica Sanz (eds). Soft Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Berlin: Springer. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2009) 'Social choice, fuzzy preferences and manipulation' In: T Boylan and R Gekker (eds). Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy. London: Routledge. [Details]
     

    Peer Reviewed Journals

    A. Piggins; J. Perote-Pena (2014) 'A model of deliberative and aggregative democracy'. Economics And Philosophy, . [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2013) 'Many-valued judgment aggregation: characterizing the possibility/impossibility boundary'. Journal Of Economic Theory, 148 (2):793-805. [DOI] [Details]
    A. Piggins; C. Duddy (2013) 'Collective approval'. Mathematical Social Sciences, 65 (3):190-194. [DOI] [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C; Perote-Pena, J (2012) 'Non-manipulable partitioning'. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 8 (2):273-282. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2012) ''A measure of distance between judgment sets''. Social Choice And Welfare, 39 :855-867. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2012) ''The proximity condition''. Social Choice And Welfare, 39 :353-369. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C; Perote-Pena, J (2011) 'Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity'. Social Choice And Welfare, 36 :25-34. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Gekker, R (2010) 'Freedom, opportunity and uncertainty: a critical review'. Homo Oeconomicus, 27 (3):321-325. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C; Perote-Pena, J (2010) ''Manipulating an aggregation rule under ordinally fuzzy preferences''. Social Choice And Welfare, 34 :411-428. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2009) 'Non-manipulable social welfare functions when preferences are fuzzy'. Journal Of Logic And Computation, 19 :503-515. [Details]
    Gekker, R, Piggins, A (2009) ''Evaluating opportunities when people are uncertainty averse''. Economic And Social Review, 40 (1):109-116. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Salles, M (2007) 'Instances of indeterminacy'. Analyse und Kritik, 29 :311-328. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2007) ''Strategy-proof fuzzy aggregation rules''. Journal Of Mathematical Economics, 43 :564-580. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2005) 'Pareto efficiency with spatial rights'. Journal Of Mathematical Economics, 41 :265-283. [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2002) 'Geometry and impossibility'. Economic Theory, 20 :831-836. [Details]
     

    Conference Publications

    Duddy, C,Perote-Pena, J,Piggins, A (2011) SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity , pp.25-34 [DOI] [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2010) Many valued judgment aggregation: characterizing the possibility/impossibility boundary Tenth Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2010) Aggregating partitions PET 10 [ARAN Link] [Details]
    Piggins, A; Duddy, C; Perote-Pena, J (2009) Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity PET 09 [Details]
    Perote-Pena, J,Piggins, A (2009) JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Non-manipulable Social Welfare Functions when Preferences are Fuzzy , pp.503-515 [DOI] [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2008) Manipulating an ordering PET 08 [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2006) Manipulating an ordering Eighth Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul Bilgi University [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2006) Manipulating an ordering PET 06 [Details]
    Piggins, A; Salles, M (2005) Instances of indeterminacy Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice 5 [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2004) Pareto efficiency with spatial rights Royal Economic Society [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2004) Manipulating a fuzzy aggregation rule Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice 4 [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2002) Pareto efficiency with spatial rights Irish Economic Association [Details]
    Piggins, A; Perote-Pena, J (2002) Pareto efficiency with spatial rights Sixth Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, California Institute of Technology [Details]
    Piggins, A; Salles, M (2000) Dealing with vagueness in economics, with applications to social choice theory Fifth Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, University of Alicante [Details]
               

    Book Review

    Piggins, A (2007) Book review of Population issues in welfare economics and social choice theory by Blackorby, Bossert and Donaldson. The review was published in Economics and Philosophy. Book Review [Details]
    Piggins, A (2007) Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethics. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
    Piggins, A (2002) Book review of Economics, values and organisation by Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman. The review was published in the Economic Journal. Book Review [Details]
    Piggins, A (2000) Joint book review of Equality of opportunity by John Roemer and Justice and equity by Serge Kolm. The review was published in the Economic Journal. Book Review [Details]
    Piggins, A (1998) Book review of Analytical politics by MJ Hinich and MC Munger. The review was published in the Economic Journal. Book Review [Details]
    Piggins, A (1997) Book review of Social choice re-examined: Volume 2 by K. J. Arrow, A. Sen and K. Suzumura (eds). The review was published in the Economic Journal. Book Review [Details]
                                                                                                                                               

    Honours and Awards

    Year: 1994.
    Title: Advanced Research Award
    Year: 1992.
    Title: Advanced Studentship Award

    Associations

    Association: Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Function/Role: Member
    Association: Econometric Society, Function/Role: Member
         

    Conference Contributions

    Ashley Piggins (2007) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Association for Public Economic Theory, Nashville, TN, USA , 05-JUL-07 - 08-JUL-07.
    Ashley Piggins (2008) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Association for Public Economic Theory, Seoul, South Korea , 27-JUN-08 - 29-JUN-08.
    Ashley Piggins (2010) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Association for Public Economic Theory, Istanbul, Turkey , 25-JUN-10 - 27-JUN-10.
    Ashley Piggins (2011) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Association for Public Economic Theory, Bloomington, Indiana , 02-JUN-11 - 04-JUN-11.
    Ashley Piggins (2013) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Association for Public Economic Theory, Lisbon, Portugal , 05-JUL-13 - 07-JUL-13.
    Ashley Piggins (2009) Co-Chair of the conference. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Association for Public Economic Theory, NUI Galway , 16-JUN-09 - 19-JUN-10.

    Committees

    Committee : Associate Head of School (Research)
    Committee : Graduate Studies Board
                 

    Teaching Interests

    I am interested in microeconomics, and currently teach first year Economics, third year Topics in Microeconomic Theory, master's level Microeconomic Theory, and a course in Advanced Microeconomic Theory to PhD students.
     

    Current Postgraduate Students

    Gillian Salerno, Doctorate - Structured Ph.D. in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences   -   Supervisor

    Modules Taught

    1/2011       First year economics course for BComm students.: Economics
    1/2011       : Topics in Microeconomic Theory
    1/2011       Master's level microeconomics course.: Microeconomic Theory
    1/2011       PhD course in microeconomics.: Advanced Microeconomic Theory

    Internal Collaborators

    Conal Duddy
    Ruvin Gekker
    Gillian Salerno

    External Collaborators

    Juan Perote-Pena
    Maurice Salles
    Mathieu Martin
    Fabrice Barthelemy
    Jose-Luis Garcia-Lapresta
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