Did you ever experience something that completely took you by surprise? Something that you hadn’t even thought about as a possibility? When that happens, your awareness expands. My research lays the foundations for incorporating growing awareness into economic models.
I also work on other problems in decision theory and microeconomic theory. Examples include incomplete preferences, contracts, and asset pricing.
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Comparative Incompleteness: Definitions, Behavioral Manifestations and Elicitation (with Edi Karni).
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205, 423-442. (2023)
Iterated Expectations under Rank-Dependent Expected Utility and Implications for Common Valuation Methods (with Alex Stomper)
Canadian Journal of Economics 22, 739-763. (2022)
An Intertemporal Model of Growing Awareness
Journal of Economic Theory 197. (2021)
"Reverse Bayesianism": A generalization (with Edi Karni and Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey)
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 557-569. (2021)
Awareness of Unawareness: A Theory of Decision Making in the Face of Ignorance (with Edi Karni)
Journal of Economic Theory 168, 301-328. (2017)
Probabilistic Sophistication and Reverse Bayesianism (with Edi Karni)
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 50, 189-208. (2015)
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Bait Contracts
Oxford Economic Papers 66, 702-720. (2014)
"Reverse Bayesianism": A Choice-Based Theory of Growing Awareness (with Edi Karni)
American Economic Review 103, 2790-2810. (2013)
Academia or the Private Sector? Sorting of Agents into Institutions and an Outside Sector (with Andrea Craig)
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions) 13, 303-345. (2013)
Contracting in Vague Environments
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4, 104-130. (2012)
Exactly What Happens After the Anscombe-Aumann Race? Representing Preferences in Vague Environments
Economic Theory 41, 175-212. (2009)
Measurements of Attitudes toward Unawareness (with Edi Karni).
Latest version: July 2025
Unawareness premia and the returns to holding beta risk (with Scott Condie and Lars Stentoft).
Lost in Objective Translation: Awareness of Unawareness when Unknowns are not simply Unknowns.
Latest version: November 2023.
Risk is Risk? (with Alex Stomper)
QED Working Paper No. 1464. January 2017.