Research     

Simplicity and Risk. Journal of Finance, Volume 80, Issue 2,  pp. 1029-1080. April 2025. [PDF] [SSRN] [DOI]

Subsumes Preference for Simplicity, SSRN, 2018. 

AQR Top Finance Graduate Award.

Hillel Einhorn Best New Investigator Award, Runner-Up.

Overvaluing 0-1 Bets (with Aaron Goodman). Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics.  August 2024. 

AQR Top Finance Graduate Award.

Simplicity and Probability Weighting in Choice Under Risk (with Drew Fudenberg). American Economic Review: P&P, Volume 122, pp. 421-425. May 2022.  Additional results in  Evaluating and Extending Theories of Choice Under Risk, 2021.

Work in Progress

Certain vs. Uncertain Timing: Financial Markets and Pricing Implications.

Discussions

Stern-Salomon Microstructure Meeting. Ben-Rephael, Cookson, and Izhakian (2024), Trading, Ambiguity, and Information in the Options Market. May 2024. [Slides]

NBER Summer Institute: Behavioral Macroeconomics. Gabaix and Graeber (2023), The Complexity of Economic Decisions. July 2023.  [Recording] [Slides]

NBER Summer Institute: Household Finance. Schlafmann, Setty, Vestman (2023), Designing Pension Plans According to Consumption-Saving Theory.  July 2023. [Slides]

SFS Cavalcade: Bubbles and Expectations. Bhamra,  Uppal, Walden (2022), Psychological Distance and Subjective Beliefs. May 2023.  [Slides]