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Dr Ashley James Piggins BA(HONS), MPHIL, PHD, PGCHET
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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.
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Research Interests
| Microeconomic theory; in particular, social choice theory, welfare economics, game theory. |
Research Projects
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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 |
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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] |
| A. Piggins; C. Duddy (2013) 'Collective approval'. Mathematical Social Sciences, . [DOI] [Details] |
| Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2013) 'Many-valued judgment aggregation: characterizing the possibility/impossibility boundary'. Journal Of Economic Theory, . [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. [DOI] [Details] |
| Piggins, A; Duddy, C (2012) 'The proximity condition'. Social Choice And Welfare, 39 :353-369. [DOI] [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; Duddy, C; Perote-Pena, J (2010) 'Manipulating an aggregation rule under ordinally fuzzy preferences'. Social Choice And Welfare, 34 :411-428. [Details] |
| Piggins, A; Gekker, R (2010) 'Freedom, opportunity and uncertainty: a critical review'. Homo Oeconomicus, 27 (3):321-325. [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. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [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
| 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] |
| 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
Internal Collaborators
| Conal Duddy Ruvin Gekker Gillian Salerno |
External Collaborators
| Juan Perote-Pena Maurice Salles Mathieu Martin Fabrice Barthelemy Jose-Luis Garcia-Lapresta |