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Education

Ph.D in Economics, New York University - May 2009
Laurea (BA) in Economics, Summa cum Laude, University of Turin (Italy) - March 2004

Employment

Assistant Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology, July 2009 - present

Research Interest

Decision Theory, Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Published and Forthcoming Papers (go to my Research Page)

Modeling the change of Paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reaction to Unexpected News.
American Economic Review, (forthcoming)
Incomplete Preferences under Uncertainty: Indecisiveness in Beliefs vs. Tastes (with Efe Ok and Gil Riella)
Econometrica, (forthcoming)
Status Quo Bias, Multiple Priors and Uncertainty Aversion.
Games and Economic Behavior 69 (2010), pp. 411-424

Working papers (go to my Research Page)

The Price of Flexibility: Towards a Theory of Thinking Aversion
Allais, Ellsberg, and Preferences for Hedging (with Mark Dean)
Revealed (P)Reference Theory (with Efe Ok and Gil Riella)
A Variation on Ellsberg (with Kfir Eliaz)
Estimating the Relationship between Economic Preferences: A Testing Ground for Unified Theories of Behavior (with Mark Dean)
The Behavior of Others as a Reference Point: Prospect Theory, Inequality, and Growth (with Francesco Bogliacino)
Theory of Product Differentiation in the presence of the Attraction Effect (with Efe Ok and Gil Riella)
Thinking Aversion and Portfolio Choice
Hypothesis Testing and Multiple Priors (Note)
Hypothesis-Testing model with an Infinite State Space (Note)

Work in Progress (go to my Research Page)

Welfare, Frames, and Sophistication (with Kristof Madarasz and Tomasz Sadzik)
Interdependent Preferences: an axiomatic treatment of how the behavior of others affects our preferences

Refereeing

Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economics Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, RAND Journal of Economics, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Journal of Mathematical Economics

Last Update, November 2011