Assistant Professor of Economics

Contact

Mailing Address

MSC 1133-124-05
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO  63130

Office Phone

+1-314-935-9542

Email

pnatenzon@wustl.edu

Research Interests:

Economic Theory
Decision Theory
Behavioral Economics

Research

Random Choice and Differentiation, with Junnan He.
Working Paper, updated July 2024.

Weighted Linear Discrete Choice, with Christopher Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Collin Raymond.
American Economic Review, revise and resubmit (2nd round), updated October 2024.

The Thrill of Gradual Learning, with Faruk Gul, Erkut Ozbay and Wolfgang Pesendorfer.
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, accepted.

Moderate Utility, with Junnan He.
American Economic Review: Insights, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2024), 176-195.

Random Evolving Lotteries and Intrinsic Preference for Information, with Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer.
Econometrica, Vol. 89, No. 5 (September, 2021), 2225–2259.

Random Choice and Learning.
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 127, No. 1, (February, 2019), 419–457.

Subjective Ambiguity and Preference for Flexibility, with Leandro Gorno.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 154, (October, 2018), 24–32.

Random Choice as Behavioral Optimization, with Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer.
Econometrica, Vol. 82, No. 5 (September, 2014), 1873–1912.

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