Economic Theory
Behavioral Economics
Philosophy & Economics
«Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.» (David Hume)
I’m an Associate Professor of Economics at City University London and an affiliate researcher at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University (Orange, Calif.). I’m also a BeLab affiliate at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics; previously, I was a PPE Fellow in the UPenn Philosophy, Politics & Economics Program (cv). My research has been published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Quantitative Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory, among other outlets.
My work produces both theoretical and empirical results with clear applications to policy analysis. Specifically, it explores the epistemic conditions that influence decision-making processes, and the effects of information transmission on strategic behavior. While primarily game-theoretic in nature, my research draws inspiration from philosophical accounts of informal institutions such as norms, conventions, and other recurrent practices arising from socioeconomic interactions. Through this lens, I analyze the foundational aspects of how individuals perceive and understand each other’s preferences and the context of their interactions. My main research methods include game-theoretic modeling, experimentation, statistical and machine learning tools.
M. C. Escher: Up and Down