Research

Fields of Interest: Decision Theory (main field), Economic Theory, and Political Economy

Working Papers:

Path Independence in Choice Data (Under Review)

An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Path Independence in Choice Data, with K. Savin. (Work in progress)

Pseudo-Rationalization and Justifiable Preferences with Infinitely Many Alternatives, with D. Gvozdev and G. Riella. (Under review)

Second-Order Representations: A Bayesian Approach (Under revision)

Second-Order Representations: Anything Goes (Work in progress. The main result in this paper will become a part of a more comprehensive project on higher-order representations.)

Top-Cycles and Revealed Preference Structures, with Hiroki Nishimura and Efe A. Ok. (For online appendix, click here.)

Forthcoming and Published Papers:

A Rationalization of the Weak Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference, with V.H. Aguiar, P. Hjertstrand and R. Serrano, forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics. (For online appendix, click here.)

Extension of Monotonic Functions and Representation of Preferences, with Farhad Husseinov, Mathematics of Operations Research, 46 (2021), 1430-1451. https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2020.1095

Recursive Non-Expected Utility: Connecting Ambiguity Attitudes to Risk Preferences and the Level of Ambiguity, Games and Economic Behavior, 114 (2019), 285-307. (For online appendix, click here.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2019.02.004

Choice Overload and Asymmetric Regret, with Gokhan Buturak, Theoretical Economics, 12 (2017), 1029-1056. https://econtheory.org/ojs/index.php/te/article/view/20171029/0

Warm-Glow Giving and Freedom to be Selfish, with Stefania Minardi, The Economic Journal, 127 (2017), 1381-1409. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12351

Scalarization Methods and Expected Multi-Utility Representations, Journal of Economic Theory, 151 (2014), 30-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2014.02.003

Altruism and Voting: A Large-Turnout Result That Does not Rely on Civic Duty or Cooperative Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (2012), 2124-2157. (For online appendix, click here.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2012.09.005

On the Multi-Utility Representation of Preference Relations, with Efe A. Ok, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 47 (2011), 554-563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.07.003

On the Existence of Expected Multi-Utility Representations, Economic Theory, 35 (2008), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-007-0252-5

Theorems on the Core of an Economy with Infinitely Many Commodities and Consumers, with Farhad Husseinov, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 44 (2008), 1180-1196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2008.01.004

Preference for Flexibility: A Continuous Representation in an Ordinal Setup, “Mathematical Topics on Representations of Ordered Structures and Utility Theory,” eds: G. Bosi, M.J. Campión, J.C. Candeal, and E. Induráin, (2020), 267-280, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34226-5_14