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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
"Preference Conditions for Invertible Demand Functions" (with Georgios Gerasimou), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2022,14(2):118-38 [Online Supplement]
"Dynamically complete markets under Brownian motion," Mathematics and Financial Economics, April 2021, 15:719-745
"(Neutrally) Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: the canonical insurance problem" (with Kostas Koufopoulos) Games and Economic Behavior, September 2018, 111:159-186 [Online Supplement]
"Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence" (with Nadia Campaniello and Giovanni Mastrobuoni) Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2017, 15:388-428
We point out some formal properties of quasi-linear preference relations, providing a proper theoretical foundation for some well-known folk-wisdom premises that underpin the use of quasi-linear preferences in consumer optimization.
Taking consumer preferences as the primitive and a linear demand system as the desideratum, I investigate how the two are related via a novel approach to demand integrability. The methodology applies irrespectively of whether prices are normalized with respect to a numeraire or income, leading to a characterization of linear demand systems in terms of the underlying rational preference relation and analytical solutions for the direct utility function. The results provide a proper microfoundation for linear demand systems filling some potentially misleading gaps in the extant literature.
In a representative-agent Lucas orchard where the risk process follows a Brownian motion, I examine how an asset's price changes with a risk factor when the asset's dividend is independent of that factor. The analysis highlights a crucial component of wealth effects on asset prices hitherto ignored by the literature: changes in wealth do not only alter the representative agent's risk aversion but also her perceived ``riskiness'' of a security. The latter effect is what drives ``contagion:'' endogenously (i.e., due to market clearing) generated positive correlation in asset prices when there is no correlation in the payoffs.
Preference conditions for the Law of Demand
(Neutrally) Optimal mechanism under adverse selection: two types
The mean-variance criterion revisited
Optimal myopia: an axiomatic approach to bounded rationality (with Paolo Ghirardato)