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Associate Professor

Rochester Institute of Technology

Contact: 

George Eastman Building (#1), Room 1355

ndrobalin@gmail.com

Papers

Published

Adaptive Cardinal Utility

with Arthur Robson, and Lorne Whitehead.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 2023.

Collusion and Turnover in Experience Goods Markets

with Daniel Monte and Ideen Riahi. Review of Economic Design, December 2019.

The Biological Foundations of Economic Preferences

with Arthur Robson.  The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, August 2019.

Applying "Theory of Mind": Theory and Experiments

with Erik Kimbrough and Arthur Robson. Games and Economic Behavior, November 2017.

The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication

with Arthur Robson. American Economic Review, April 2016.

Genes, Culture, and Preferences

with Arthur Robson. Biological Theory, 2013.

The Economic Approach to Theory of Mind

with Arthur Robson. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, August 2012.


Working Papers

Are Humans More Averse to Aggregate Risk?  Testing an Evolutionary Economic Theory 

with Ryan Oprea 

Complexity Aversion and Efficiency in Finite Markets

Selling Reputational Information

Market Power and Complexity in Decentralized Exchange