CV

Curriculum Vitae

Name:

Ani Vladimirova Guerdjikova

Academic Degrees:

PhD in Economics, University of Heidelberg 2004

Diplom Kauffrau (Diploma in Business Administration), University of Saarland 2000

Personal Background:

Date of birth: 12.09.1977

Place of birth: Dubna, Russia

Nationality: Bulgarian

Education:

1996-1998: Study of International Economics at the University for National and World Economics, Sofia

1998-2000: Study of Business Administration at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken

Thesis: „Pareto-Dominance versus Risk-Dominance – Equilibrium Selection in Games with Multiple Equilibria“

2000-2004: PhD Dissertation on Applications of the Case-Based Decision Theory for Financial Markets, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Juergen Eichberger, University of Heidelberg

Professional Experience:

2000-2004: Research and teaching assistant with Prof. Dr. Juergen Eichberger, Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg

2004 – July 2010: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Cornell University

July 2010 – July 2011: Associate Professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise

August 2011 – present: Professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise

Scholarships and Awards:

1998-1999: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service

2002: Young Economists International Presentation Award of the German Economic Association and Scholarship of the National Bank of Switzerland

2003: Young Economists International Presentation Award of the German Economic Association and Scholarship of Deutsche Bundesbank

2004: Ruprecht-Karls Prize for outstanding dissertation

Publications:

“Preferences for Diversification with Similarity Considerations” (2007) in Abdellaoui, M., Luce, R. D., Machina, M. J., Munier, B. (eds.)

Uncertainty and Risk. Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

“Preferences for Flexibility versus Reduction of Ambiguity” (2007), with Alexander Zimper, Social Choice and Welfare 30: 507-526.

“The New Institutional Economics of Markets: A Comment” (2007), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163 (3), 517-525.

“Case-Based Learning with Different Similarity Functions” (2008), Games and Economic Behavior 63:107-132.

“Case-Based Decision Theory” (2008), in: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, eds. Blume, L., Durlaugh, S., MacMillian, New York.

“Case-based belief formation under ambiguity” (2010), with Juergen Eichberger, Mathematical Social Sciences 60: 161-177.

“Institutions and Growth in Limited Access Societies” (2011), with Levon Barseghyan, Journal of Economic Theory 146: 528-568.

“Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment” (2012), with Eric Danan and Alexander Zimper, Theory and Decision, 72: 1-13.

"Climate Change and Technological Adaptation: A Case-Based Approach" (2012), with Juergen Eichberger, Climate Change Economics 3:2.

"Ambiguity, Data and Preferences for Information: A Case-Based Approach" (2013), with Juergen Eichberger, Journal of Economic Theory 148: 1433 - 1462

Working Papers:

“Survival with Smooth Ambiguity Aversion” (2013), with Emanuela Sciubba, mimeo, University of Cergy-Pontoise

“Weighing Experts, Weighing Sources: Similarity Matters” with Klaus Nehring

“Optimism and Pessimism in Financial Markets” with Juergen Eichberger

Seminars

Cornell University, University of Mannheim, Texas University Austen, Texas A&M University, John Hopkins University, University of Heidelberg, University of Saarbruecken, University of Chicago, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Rice University, University of Essex, University of Exeter, Birkbeck College of London, University of Frankfurt, Virginia Tech, UC Davis, George Washington University, Paris 1 Sorbonne, Paris 2 Pantheon, Paris 4 Dauphine, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Paderborn, University of Sankt Gallen, University of East Anglia