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Published Papers
- " Decentralizability of efficient allocations with heterogeneous forecasts" with Shurojit Chatterji, Journal of Economic Theory vol 207 (January 2023), article number 105592.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2022.105592
Working paper version:
Working Papers on Central Bank Communication, 031, March 2021.
(Older version:
Working Papers on Central Bank Communication, 016, February 2020.
- "Efficiency, Quality of Forecasts and Radner Equilibria" with Shurojit Chatterji,
Pure and Applied Functional Analysis, (2022) Volume 7, Number 6,pages 2029-2091. a special issue on Mathematical Economics dedicated to Professor Roy Radner. (working paper version: Working Papers on Central Bank Communication, 024, June 2020.
- "Refinements and higher- order beliefs: a unified survey" [with Stephen Morris] The Japanese Economic Review, 71(1), (January 2020) pages 7--34 (DOI: 10.1007/s42973-019-00006-x) open access paper available
- "Notes on "refinements and higher order beliefs" [with Stephen Morris] The Japanese Economic Review, 71(1), (January 2020) pages 35-41 (DOI: 10.1007/s42973-019-00007-w) open access paper available
- "Favorite-Longshot Bias in Parimutuel Betting: an Evolutionary Explanation" with Takahiro Watanabe. Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization 140, August 2017, Pages 56-69. (on line first on 4 May 2017). An earlier version was circulated as KIER working papers #907, December 2014.
- "Approximate Robustness of Equilibrium to Incomplete Information", with Ori Haimanko. International Journal of Game Theory, (November 2016) 45 (4), 839-857 (published online 11 August 2015, DOI 10.1007/s00182-015-0488-4). An earlier version is entitled "On Continuity of Robust Equilibria", KIER working paper #818, May 2012.
- "Constrained Inefficiency and Optimal Taxation with Uninsurable Risks", [with Piero Gottardi and Tomoyuki Nakajima], Journal of Public Economic Theory, (January 2016)18 (1), 1-28.
- "Optimal Taxation and Debt with Uninsurable Risks to Human Capital Accumulation" [with
Piero Gottardi and Tomoyuki Nakajima], American Economic Review, (Nov 2015) 105(11): 3443-70.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20110576.
- "A Generalized Representation Theorem for Harsanyi's (`Impartial') Observer" [with Simon Grant, Ben Polak and Zvi Safra], Social Choice and Welfare 39, No. 4, (2012) Pages 833-846, DOI 10.1007/s00355-011-0563-0
- "Equally-Distributed Equivalent Utility, Ex Post Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism" [with Simon Grant, Ben Polak and Zvi Safra], Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 147, issue 4 (July, 2012), 1545-1571. DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.04.001 (available on line 2 April 2011)
- "The Myerson value for complete coalition structures" [with H. Kojima and T. Ui], Mathematical Methods of Operations Research vol. 74, 427-443 (November, 2011) DOI: 10.1007/s00186-011-0371-4.
- "Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem" [with Simon Grant, Ben Polak and Zvi Safra],
Econometrica, Vol. 78, No. 6 (November, 2010), 1939-1971.
- "Coextrema Additive Operators" with H. Kojima and T. Ui, Chapter 6 in
S. K. Neogy, A. K. Das and R. B. Bapat (eds.), "Modeling, Computation and Optimization", Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research - Vol. 6, World Scientific, April 2009, 73-95.
- "Sunspot Equilibria in a Production Economy: Do Rational Animal Spirits Cause Overproduction?",
The Japanese Economic Review, vol. 60, No. 1, (March 2009), 35-54.
- "Interim Efficient Allocations under Uncertainty" [with Takashi Ui],
Journal of Economic Theory 144 no. 1, (January 2009) 337-353.
(available on line 1 July 2008) (an earlier version was entitled
"Trade with Heterogeneous Multiple Priors" CAEA Working Paper series No.096,
Kyoto University, January 2006
( pdf file )
- "Welfare gains and losses in sunspot equilibria'', Japanese Economic Review vol. 58, No.3., September 2007, 329-344.
- "Local
Sunspot Equilibria Reconsidered", Economic Theory 31, no. 3, (2007), 401-425.
(published On line July 2006) [with Julio Davila and Piero Gottardi]
- "The epsilon-Gini-contamination multiple priors model admits
a linear- mean- standard- deviation utility representation", [with Simon Grant]
Economics Letters vol 95, no. 1, (April 2007), 39-47.
- "Cominimum Additive Operators", with Hiroyuki Kojima and Takashi Ui,
Journal of Mathematical Economics 43, (February 2007), 218-230.
- "Risk-Free Bond Prices in Incomplete Markets with
Recursive Utility Functions and Multiple Beliefs", with Chiaki Hara,
International Journal of Economic Theory 2 (June 2006) 135-57.
- "Agreeable Bets with Multiple Priors", Journal of Economic Theory 128 (May 2006), 299-305. [with Takashi Ui]
- "Auctions
with Options for Re-auction", the International Journal of Economic Theory 2 (March 2006) 17-39. [with Simon Grant, Flavio Menezes, Matthew
Ryan]
(An earlier version is
available here)
- "Equivalence of the Dempster-Shafer rule and the maximum
likelihood rule implies convexity," Economics Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 10 pages 1-6. (September 2005)
[with Takashi Ui]
- "Incomplete
Information Games with Multiple Priors", Japanese Economic Review,
(Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2005) pages 332-351 [with Takashi Ui]
- "A note on
the regularity of competitive equilibria and asset structures," Journal
of Mathematical Economics (Volume 39, Issue 7, September 2003)
Pages 763-776 [with Piero
Gottardi]
- "Corrigendum
to gBargaining and Boldness,"h with Albert Burgos and Simon Grant. Games
and Economic Behavior 41, (October 2002) 165-168.
- "Bargaining
and Boldness," with Albert Burgos and Simon Grant. Games and
Economic Behavior 38, (January 2002) 28-51. There is an error . See above.
- "Third
down with a yard to go": recursive expected utility and the
Dixit-Skeath conundrum," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak, Economics
Letters , 73, (December 2001) pp. 275-286.
- "Different
Notions of Disappointment Aversion," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak, Economics
Letters, 70, (February 2001), 203-208
- "Decomposable
Choice under Uncertainty," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak. Journal
of Economic Theory, 92, (June 2000), 169-197.
- "Preference
for Information and Dynamic Consistency," with Simon Grant and Ben
Polak. Theory and Decision. Volume 48, issue 3 (May 2000) pages
263-286. (abstract)
- "Temporal
Resolution of Uncertainty and Recursive Non-Expected Utility Models,"
with Simon Grant and Ben Polak. Econometrica, 68, (March 2000),
425-434. (abstract) . See also a
working paper version (pdf file)
which contains some extensions and proofs which are not contained in
the published version.
- "The
Structure of Sunspot Equilibria: the Role of Multiplicity,'' with Piero Gottardi. Review of Economic Studies, 66 (July
1999), 713-732. (abstract)
- "Intrinsic
Preference for information," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak,Journal
of Economic Theory, (December 1998), 83, 233-259. (abstract)
- "AUSI
Expected Utility; an Anticipated Utility Theory of Relative
Disappointment Aversion,'' with Simon Grant. Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, 37, (November 1998), 277-290. (abstract)
- "Payoff
Continuity in Incomplete Information Games,'' with Stephen Morris
, Journal of Economic Theory 82, (September 1998), 267-276.@
- "Constrained
Suboptimality in Incomplete Markets: A General Approach and Two
Applications,'' with Alessandro Citanna and Antonio Villanacci. Economic
Theory 11, (May 1998), 495-522.
- "Sunspots
and the Sequential Regularity of Competitive Equilibria,'' Journal
of Economic Theory 78, (January 1998), 187-194. (abstract)
- "The
Robustness of Equilibria to Incomplete Information,'' with Stephen Morris
. Econometrica 65C(1997), 1283-1309.(abstract)
- "On the
Role of Options in Sunspot Equilibria,'' Econometrica 65, (1997),
977-986. (abstract)
- "Common
p-Belief: the General Case,'' with Stephen Morris
. Games and Economic Behavior 18, (1997), 73-82.
- "How to
Discard Non-Satiation and Free Disposal with Paper Money.'' Journal
of Mathematical Economics 25, (1996), 75-84.
- "A
Cardinal Characterization of the Rubinstein-Safra-Thomson Axiomatic
Bargaining Theory,'' with Simon Grant, Econometrica 63,
(1995), 1241-1249.
- "Anonymity
and Optimality of Competitive Equilibria When Markets are Incomplete,''
Journal of Economic Theory 64, (1994), 115-129.
- "On
Incentive Compatibility and Constrained Optimality of Incomplete Market
Equilibria,'' Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 34, (1993),
123-135.
- "Many Good
Risks: An Interpretation of Multivariate Risk and Risk Aversion without
the Independence Axiom," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak, Journal
of Economic Theory 56, (1992), 338-351.
- "Many Good
Choice Axioms: When can Many-Good Lotteries be Treated as Money
Lotteries ?,'' with Simon Grant and Ben Polak, Journal of Economic
Theory 56, (1992), 313-337.
- "A Generalization of Scarf's Theorem: an alpha -Core Existence Theorem
without Transitivity or Completeness,'' Journal of Economic Theory
56, (1992), 194-205.
- "Note on
Equilibria Without Ordered Preferences in Topological Vector Spaces,''
Economics Letters 27, (1988), 1-4.
- "A General
Equilibrium Model With Fuzzy Preferences,'' Fuzzy Sets and Systems
26, (1988), 131-133.
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UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS
- "Rich by Accident: the Second Welfare Theorem with a Redundant Asset Under Imperfect Foresight"
with Shurojit Chatterji,
Working Papers on Central Bank Communication, 048, January 2024.
- "On the Welfare Role of Redundant Assets with Heterogeneous Forecasts" with Shurojit Chatterji,
Working Papers on Central Bank Communication, 046, March 2023.
- "Notes on 'Refinements and Higher Order Beliefs'" with Stephen Morris, KIER discussion papers No.1007, March 2019
- "Intertemporal efficiency does not imply a common price forecast" with Shurojit Chatterji and Huaxia Zeng, KIER discussion papers No.999, August 2018
- "Intertemporal efficiency does not imply a common price forecast: a leading example" with Shurojit Chatterji and Huaxia Zeng, KIER discussion papers No.992, May 2018
- "Precautionary saving with changing income ambiguity" with Jingyi Xue. KIER discussion papers #940, May 2016.
- "Optimal taxation and constrained inefficiency in an infinite-
horizon economy with incomplete markets" KIER working paper #745 December 2010 (earlier version of "Optimal Taxation and Debt with Uninsurable Risks to Human Capital Accumulation" American Economic Review, (Nov 2015)
- "Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem", with S. Grant, B. Polak, and Z. Safra.
Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1578. Available at SSRN
- "Probabilistically Sophisticated Multiple Priors", with Simon Grant.
(pdf file)KIER
working paper #608 October 2005
- "Dempster-Shafer updating and additivity of the core", with Takashi Ui.
In "Kokyuroku" series 1371, RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (RIMS), Kyoto University.
( pdf file)
- "On the Range of the Risk-Free Interest Rate in Incomplete Markets" with Chiaki
Hara, 2001. Updated November 2003. ( pdf file );
KIER Working Paper
577, Kyoto University November 2003
- "Accidents
of Birth, Life Chances, and the Impartial Observer ," with Simon Grant
and Ben Polak., ISER Discussion Paper 582 ( pdf
file )
- "Intrinsic
Preference for information," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak. Australian National University, Department of Economics working paper no. 323.
(abstract)
- "Refinements
and Higher Order Beliefs: A Unified Survey," with Stephen Morris
. mimeo.1997 (abstract) (pdf file) (dvi file) A copy is also available here
- "Rubinstein's
Similarity Consistent Preferences: A Complete Characterization,'' RSSS
discussion paper, The Australian National University, 1996.(abstract) (pdf file)
- "Bargaining,
Boldness and Nash Outcomes,'' with Simon Grant, 1994, The Australian National University.(abstract) (pdf file)
- "Constrained
Suboptimality with Many Agents,'' CARESS Working Paper #92-29, 1992, University of Pennsylvania.
- "Large
Random Economies,'' CARESS Working Paper series #91-22, 1991, University of Pennsylvania.
- "On The
Role of Paper Money in General Equilibrium Models with Incomplete
Markets,'' CARESS Working Paper series #91-23, 1991, University of Pennsylvania.
- "Melioration:
An Economic Approach,'' with Simon Grant, 1989.
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Institute
of Policy and Planning Sciences Discussion
Paper series
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- No. 761 "Weakening
the Sure-Thing Principle: Decomposable Choice under Uncertainty," with
Simon Grant and Ben Polak. October 1997. (abstract)
- No. 803
"Decomposable Choice under Uncertainty," with Simon Grant and Ben
Polak. December 1998.
- No. 804 "On the
Skiadas "Conditional Preference Approach'' to Choice Under
Uncertainty," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak. December 1998.
Unpublished
Version
"Temporal Resolution of
Uncertainty and Recursive
Non-Expected Utility Models," with Simon Grant and Ben Polak. WORKING PAPER VERSION. This version
contains a many
period version of preference for early resolution model. (pdf file) , (try this if fonts do not appear
correctly - pdf file)
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Research Proposals
New
approachs to decision making under uncertainty