Faculty

Simon Grant
Lay Family Professor of Economics

Baker Hall 252
Ph: 713.348.3332
Fax: 713.348.5278
Email: sgrant@rice.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

 
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1991
   
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Decision making under uncertainty, non-expected utility theory, and applying non-expected utility theory to games and social choice.
   
WORKING PAPERS AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

 

“Absolute Ambiguity Aversion: Mean Dispersion Preferences,”
(with B. Polak), September 2007.

“Awareness and Discovery,” (with J. Quiggin), September 2007.

"Lost in Translation: Honest Misunderstandings and Ex Post Disputes," (with J. Kline and J. Quiggin), October 2007.

“Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer's Theorem,” (with A. Kajii, B. Polak and Z. Safra), September 2006.

“Incorporating Fairness in Generalized Games of Matching Pennies,” (with R. Boylan), forthcoming International Journal of Economic Theory .

“Probabilistic Sophistication and Stochastic Monotonicity in the Savage Framework,” (with H. Oszoy, B. Polak), forthcoming Mathematical Social Sciences .

“Differentiating Ambiguity: A Comment,” (with J. Eichberger and D. Kelsey) forthcoming Economic Theory.

 
   
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

"Choice under uncertainty with the best and worst in Mind: Neo-additive capacities", (with A. Chateauneuf, J. Eichberger), Journal of Economic Theory, 137, 538 - 567, 2007

“Updating Choquet Beliefs”, (with D. Kelsey, J. Eichberger), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 43 (7-8), 888 - 899, 2007.

“The Epsilon-Gini-Contamination Multiple Priors Model Admits a Linear-Mean-Standard-Deviation Utility Representation”, (with A. Kajii), Economics Letters, 95 (1), 39 - 47, 2007.

“Bayesian Beliefs with Stochastic Monotonicity: An Extension of Machina and Schmeidler”, (with B. Polak), Journal of Economic Theory, 130, 264-282, 2006.

“The Risk Premium for Equity: Implications for Resource Allocation, Welfare and Policy” (with J. Quiggin), Australian Economic Papers, 45(3), 253-268, 2006.

“Auctions with Options for Reauction” (with A. Kajii, F. Menezes and M.J. Ryan), International Journal of Economic Theory, 2, 17 - 39, 2006.

“Why Does it Matter that Beliefs and Valuations be Correctly Represented?” (with Edi Karni). International Economic Review, 46(3), 917-934, 2005.

“CEU Preferences and Dynamic Consistency”, (with J. Eichberger and D. Kelsey). Mathematical Social Sciences, 49(2), 143-151, 2005.

“Increasing Uncertainty: A Definition”, (with J. Quiggin). Mathematical Social Sciences, 49(2), 117-141, 2005.

Last modified by S. Grant: 12/03/07