Publications

My publications below are organized by topic. See my vitae for the chronological order.

Temptation and Self-Control

• “Commitment and Self-Control”    

           Journal of Economic Theory 135(1), Jul 2007, p1-34. [lead article]  (working paper [pdf])

• “Uphill Self-Control”, with N. Takeoka

            Theoretical Economics 5(2), May 2010, p127-158     

• “Temptation and Revealed Preference”

            Econometrica 79(2), Mar 2011, p601-644 (working paper [pdf], supplementary appendix [pdf])      

• “Removed Preference” 

            Journal of Economic Theory 148(4), July 2013, p1463-1486 (working paper [pdf])

•   “Menu-Dependent Self-Control”, with N. Takeoka    

            Journal of Mathematical Economics 61, Dec 2015, p1-20 (working paper [pdf])

• “Commitments and Weak Resolve”, with Igor Kopylov

            Economic Theory 66(1), July 2018, p1-19 (working paper [pdf])

• “Temptation and Guilt”, joint with L. Ren  

           Games and Economic Behavior forthcoming (working paper  [pdf])

Time Preference

• “Decreasing Impatience and the Magnitude Effect Jointly Contradict Exponential Discounting”

           Journal of Economic Theory 144(2), Mar 2009, p869-875.  (working paper [pdf])

• “Hyperbolic Discounting and the Standard Model: Eliciting Discount Functions”

           Journal of Economic Theory 144(5), Sep 2009, p2077-2083.  (working paper [pdf])       

• “Intertemporal Choice and the Magnitude Effect”    

            Games and Economic Behavior 72(1), May 2011, p255-270 (working paper [pdf])

• “Optimal Discounting”, with Norio Takeoka 

            Econometrica 90(2), Mar 2022, p585-623 (working paper [pdf], online appendix [pdf])

Beliefs

•  “Non-Bayesian Updating: A Theoretical Framework”, with L. Epstein and A. Sandroni 

            Theoretical Economics 3(2), Jul 2008, p193-229

• “Non-Bayesian Learning”, with L. Epstein and A. Sandroni

            B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances) 10(1), Jan 2010, (working paper [pdf])