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Phone: 847-254-2420

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Office: 544 Jacobs Center
Phone: 847-254-2420

Recent Working Papers
  • “Social Welfare and Precautionary Action,” 2013.**
  • “Uncertainty and Disagreement in Equilibrium Models,” with Eran Shmaya, 2012. **
  • “Learning and Long-Run Fundamentals in Stationary Environments,” with Eran Shmaya. **
(** ) Contact me for the most recent version of these papers.
  • “A Bayesian Framework for Precautionary Policies,” 2013. Paper.
  • “An Economic Model of Induction,” with Luciano Pomatto and Alvaro Sandroni. Paper.
  • “Merging and Testing of Opinions,” with Luciano Pomatto and Alvaro Sandroni. Paper.
  • “A Bayesian Model of Knightian Uncertainty,” with Jonathan Weinstein, 2012. Paper.
  • “Parametric Representation of Preferences,” with Luciano de Castro, 2010. Paper.
  • “Subjective Foundations of Objective Probability,” with Luciano de Castro, 2009. Paper, slides.
  • “Coarse Decision Making,” with Mallesh Pai, 2009. Paper, slides.


Recent Published Papers
  • “A Difficulty with the Testing of Strategic Experts,” with A. Sandroni. Mathematical Social Sciences, 2013. Link to paper.

  • “Subjective Probability” with Luciano de Castro. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, 2011. Link to paper,

  • “Testing Theories with Learnable and Predictive Representations,” with Alvaro Sandroni, Rann Smorodinsky, and Jonathan Weinstein. Journal of Economic Theory, 2010. Link to paper, slides.

  • “Decision Makers as Statisticians: Diversity, Ambiguity, and Learning.” Econometrica, 2009. Link to paper.
  • “The ambiguity Aversion Literature: A Critical Assessment,” with Jonathan Weinstein. Economics and Philosophy, 2009 (lead paper in a special issue on ambiguity with replies and rejoinder). Links to paper, slides.

  • “Large Games and the Law of Large Numbers.” Games and Economic Behavior, 2009. Link to paper, slides.

  • “Market Forces Meet Behavioral Biases: Cost Mis-allocation and Irrational Pricing,” with S. Baliga and D. Besanko. RAND Journal of Economics, 2008. Link to paper, slides.


  • “Finitely Additive Representation of Lp Spaces.” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2008. Link to paper, slides .

  • “The Efficiency of Competitive Mechanisms under Private Information,” with Rann Smorodinsky. Journal of Economic Theory, 2007. Link to paper, slides.

  • “Undescribable Events” with Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli. Review of Economic Studies, 2006. Link to paper.

  • “Aggretation and the Law of Large Numbers in Large Economies” Games and Economic Behavior, 2004. Link to paper.

  • “Probabilistic Representation of Complexity” with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emre Ozdenoren. Journal of Economic Theory, 2003. Link to paper.

  • “Large Non-Anonymous Games” with Rann Smorodinsky. Journal of Economic Theory, 2001. Link to paper.

  • “A Reputational Model of Authority” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2001. Link to paper.

  • “Pivotal Players and the Characterization of Influence” with Rann Smorodinsky. Journal of Economic Theory, 2000. Link to paper.

  • “Provision of Public Goods with Bounded Project Cost” with Rann Smorodinsky. Economic Letters, 2000. Link to paper.


For papers published prior to 2000, see my vita.

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