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Working Papers
2022
- Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent?
SAFE Working Paper Series, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE View citations (2)
Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2021) 
See also Journal Article Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent?, Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier (2024) (2024)
2020
- Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (3)
Also in MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (2018)  ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (2018) View citations (1) SAFE Working Paper Series, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE (2020) View citations (4) Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2020) View citations (3)
See also Journal Article COGNITION, OPTIMISM, AND THE FORMATION OF AGE‐DEPENDENT SURVIVAL BELIEFS, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (2021) View citations (6) (2021)
2019
- Preferences Over Rich Sets of Random Variables: Semicontinuity in Measure versus Convexity
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics
2018
- Preferences over all random variables: Incompatibility of convexity and continuity
Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (2)
Also in Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics (2017) 
See also Journal Article Preferences over all random variables: Incompatibility of convexity and continuity, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (3) (2018)
2017
- Financial Development and Economic Growth in SADC: Cross Country Spatial Spill-Over Effects
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (1)
- Rationalizable Information Equilibria
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics
2016
- On the causal links between the stock market and the economy of Hong Kong
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (4)
- Piketty’s Capital and Private Wealth in South Africa
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (1)
- The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
2015
- A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs
SAFE Working Paper Series, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE View citations (2)
Also in Working Paper Series in Economics, University of Cologne, Department of Economics (2013) View citations (5) Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2014) View citations (1) MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (2013) View citations (5)
See also Journal Article A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs, Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier (2016) View citations (24) (2016)
- Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanations
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (5)
- Bayesian Learning with Multiple Priors and Non-Vanishing Ambiguity
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics 
See also Journal Article Bayesian learning with multiple priors and nonvanishing ambiguity, Economic Theory, Springer (2017) View citations (5) (2017)
- Biased Survival Beliefs, Psychological and Cognitive Explanations, and the Demand for Life Insurances
VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association
- Loud and Clear: Can we hear when the SARB speaks?
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
- Portfolio Flows in a two-country RBC model with financial intermediaries
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
- The role of banks in money creation
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
2014
- Subjective Life Expectancy
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (10)
2013
- Ambiguous Survival Beliefs and Hyperbolic Discounting in a Life-Cycle Model
VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association View citations (1)
- Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
Also in Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics (2013) 
See also Journal Article Bank-Deposit Contracts Versus Financial-Market Participation in Emerging Economies, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
- Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (3)
See also Journal Article Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
- On the Welfare Equivalence of Asset Markets and Banking in Diamond Dybvig Economies
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (2)
See also Journal Article On the welfare equivalence of asset markets and banking in Diamond Dybvig economies, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
- On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2013) 
See also Journal Article On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier (2014) (2014)
- Speculative Trade Equilibria with Incorrect Price Anticipations
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (2)
Also in Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics (2013) View citations (2)
- The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (4)
See also Journal Article The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer (2015) View citations (12) (2015)
- The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (1)
See also Journal Article The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation, Journal of Banking Regulation, Palgrave Macmillan (2014) View citations (2) (2014)
2012
- A Life-Cycle Consumption Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs
2012 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (7)
- A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2012) 
See also Journal Article A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news, Annals of Finance, Springer (2013) View citations (3) (2013)
- Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment
Post-Print, HAL View citations (11)
Also in THEMA Working Papers, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise (2009) View citations (1) Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2008) 
See also Journal Article Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment, Theory and Decision, Springer (2012) View citations (13) (2012)
- The emergence of "fifty-fifty" probability judgements in a conditional Savage world
Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2012)
2011
- Do Bayesians learn their way out of ambiguity?
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (10)
See also Journal Article Do Bayesians Learn Their Way Out of Ambiguity?, Decision Analysis, INFORMS (2011) View citations (10) (2011)
- Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox
Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
- Optimal liquidity provision through a demand deposit scheme: The Jacklin critique revisited
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa View citations (1)
See also Journal Article Optimal Liquidity Provision Through a Demand Deposit Scheme: The Jacklin Critique Revisited, German Economic Review, De Gruyter (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
2009
- The harmonic sequence paradox reconsidered
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
2008
- A Parsimonious Choquet Model of Subjective Life Expectancy
Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
- A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
Also in MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (2007) View citations (16) Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2007) View citations (13) Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim (2007) View citations (13)
See also Journal Article A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy, Theory and Decision, Springer (2013) View citations (38) (2013)
- Asset pricing in a Lucas ‘fruit-tree’ economy with non-additive beliefs
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa
- On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
See also Journal Article On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer (2009) View citations (20) (2009)
- Revisiting independence and stochastic dominance for compound lotteries
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
See also Journal Article Revisiting Independence and Stochastic Dominance for Compound Lotteries, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
2007
- Attitude polarization
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2007)  MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (2007) View citations (2)
- Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
See also Journal Article Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2009) View citations (15) (2009)
- Security and Potential Level Preferences with Thresholds
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2003)
2006
- A fixed point characterization of the dominancesolvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
See also Journal Article A fixed point characterization of the dominance-solvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes, International Journal of Game Theory, Springer (2007) View citations (11) (2007)
- An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes
Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa 
See also Journal Article An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2009) (2009)
- Flexibility of Choice versus Reduction of Ambiguity
Working Papers, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Economic Research Southern Africa (2006) 
See also Journal Article Flexibility of choice versus reduction of ambiguity, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2008) View citations (5) (2008)
2005
- Equivalence between best responses and undominated
Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 View citations (6)
Also in Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim (2005) View citations (6)
2004
- A Note on the Equivalence of Rationalizability Concepts in Generalized Nice Games
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2004) 
See also Journal Article A NOTE ON THE EQUIVALENCE OF RATIONALIZABILITY CONCEPTS IN GENERALIZED NICE GAMES, International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. (2006) (2006)
- Dominance-Solvable Lattice Games
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2004)
- Investment Behavior under Ambiguity: The Case of Pessimistic Decision Makers
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2004)  MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (2004) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article Investment behavior under ambiguity: The case of pessimistic decision makers, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2006) View citations (10) (2006)
- On the Existence of Strategic Solutions for Games with Security- and Potential Level Players
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim 
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2004)
- Rational Expectations and Ambiguity: A Comment on Abel
MEA discussion paper series, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
- Rational Expectations and Ambiguity: A Comment on Abel (2002)
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim View citations (3)
Also in Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 (2004) 
See also Journal Article Rational expectations and ambiguity: A comment on Abel (2002), Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon (2006) View citations (2) (2006)
2003
- Security And Potential Level Preferences With
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim View citations (1)
- Uniqueness Conditions for Point-Rationalizable
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim
- Uniqueness conditions for point-rationalizable solutions of games with metrizable strategy sets
Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504 View citations (1)
Journal Articles
2024
- Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent?
Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, 219, (C) 
See also Working Paper Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent?, SAFE Working Paper Series (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
2023
- Belief aggregation for representative agent models
International Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, 19, (2), 309-342 View citations (1)
- Unrealized arbitrage opportunities in naive equilibria with non-Bayesian belief processes
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2023, 125, (C), 27-41
2022
- Moving from a bad to a good pricing regime: The South African private health care market
South African Journal of Economics, 2022, 90, (2), 260-276
- When is Knowledge Acquisition Socially Beneficial in the Laffont–Tirole Regulatory Framework?
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2022, 22, (1), 233-266
2021
- Bargaining over loan contracts with signaling
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2021, 23, (5), 958-984 View citations (1)
- COGNITION, OPTIMISM, AND THE FORMATION OF AGE‐DEPENDENT SURVIVAL BELIEFS
International Economic Review, 2021, 62, (2), 887-918 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs, CEPR Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
2020
- Choosing the agent's group identity in a trust game with delegated decision making
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2020, 22, (1), 220-244
2018
- Preferences over all random variables: Incompatibility of convexity and continuity
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2018, 75, (C), 71-83 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper Preferences over all random variables: Incompatibility of convexity and continuity, Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
2017
- Bayesian learning with multiple priors and nonvanishing ambiguity
Economic Theory, 2017, 64, (3), 409-447 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper Bayesian Learning with Multiple Priors and Non-Vanishing Ambiguity, Working Papers (2015) (2015)
2016
- A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs
Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, (C), 137-180 View citations (24)
See also Working Paper A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs, SAFE Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
- Banks versus markets. A response to Kucinskas
Economics Letters, 2016, 147, (C), 174-176
2015
- Bank-Deposit Contracts Versus Financial-Market Participation in Emerging Economies
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, 51, (3), 525-536 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies, Working Papers (2013) (2013)
- Erratum to: The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2015, 50, (2), 117-117 View citations (12)
- The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2015, 50, (2), 97-115 View citations (12)
See also Working Paper The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle, Working Papers (2013) View citations (4) (2013)
2014
- Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2014, 39, (C), 79-97 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle, Working Papers (2013) View citations (3) (2013)
- On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria
The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 28, (C), 109-118 
See also Working Paper On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria, Working Papers (2013) (2013)
- The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation
Journal of Banking Regulation, 2014, 15, (2), 129-143 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation, Working Papers (2013) View citations (1) (2013)
2013
- A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news
Annals of Finance, 2013, 9, (4), 625-665 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news, Working Papers (2012) (2012)
- A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy
Theory and Decision, 2013, 75, (4), 519-541 View citations (38)
See also Working Paper A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy, Working Papers (2008) (2008)
- On the welfare equivalence of asset markets and banking in Diamond Dybvig economies
Economics Letters, 2013, 121, (3), 356-359 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper On the Welfare Equivalence of Asset Markets and Banking in Diamond Dybvig Economies, Working Papers (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
- Optimal Liquidity Provision Through a Demand Deposit Scheme: The Jacklin Critique Revisited
German Economic Review, 2013, 14, (1), 89-107 View citations (2)
Also in German Economic Review, 2013, 14, (1), 89-107 (2013) View citations (2)
See also Working Paper Optimal liquidity provision through a demand deposit scheme: The Jacklin critique revisited, Working Papers (2011) View citations (1) (2011)
2012
- Asset pricing in a Lucas fruit-tree economy with the best and worst in mind
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2012, 36, (4), 610-628 View citations (20)
- Can industry regulators learn collusion structures from information-efficient asset markets?
Economics Letters, 2012, 116, (1), 1-4
- Existence of speculative bubbles when time-horizons are finite
Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32, (1), 251-259
- Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment
Theory and Decision, 2012, 72, (1), 1-13 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment, Post-Print (2012) View citations (11) (2012)
2011
- Do Bayesians Learn Their Way Out of Ambiguity?
Decision Analysis, 2011, 8, (4), 269-285 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper Do Bayesians learn their way out of ambiguity?, Working Papers (2011) View citations (10) (2011)
- Re-examining the law of iterated expectations for Choquet decision makers
Theory and Decision, 2011, 71, (4), 669-677 View citations (13)
2010
- Canonical interpretation of propositions as events
International Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 6, (3), 327-339
2009
- An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009, 58, (3), 290-309 
See also Working Paper An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes, Working Papers (2006) (2006)
- Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (2), 283-299 View citations (15)
See also Working Paper Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever, Working Papers (2007) (2007)
- On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2009, 39, (2), 181-212 View citations (20)
See also Working Paper On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs, Working Papers (2008) (2008)
2008
- Flexibility of choice versus reduction of ambiguity
Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 30, (3), 507-526 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper Flexibility of Choice versus Reduction of Ambiguity, Working Papers (2006) (2006)
- Revisiting Independence and Stochastic Dominance for Compound Lotteries
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2008, 8, (1), 11 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper Revisiting independence and stochastic dominance for compound lotteries, Working Papers (2008) (2008)
2007
- A fixed point characterization of the dominance-solvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes
International Journal of Game Theory, 2007, 36, (1), 107-117 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper A fixed point characterization of the dominancesolvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes, Working Papers (2006) (2006)
- Strategic games with security and potential level players
Theory and Decision, 2007, 63, (1), 53-78
2006
- A NOTE ON THE EQUIVALENCE OF RATIONALIZABILITY CONCEPTS IN GENERALIZED NICE GAMES
International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2006, 08, (04), 669-674 
See also Working Paper A Note on the Equivalence of Rationalizability Concepts in Generalized Nice Games, Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications (2004) (2004)
- Assessing the Likelihood of Panic-Based Bank Runs
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2006, 6, (1), 21 View citations (2)
- Investment behavior under ambiguity: The case of pessimistic decision makers
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2006, 52, (2), 111-130 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper Investment Behavior under Ambiguity: The Case of Pessimistic Decision Makers, Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications (2004) (2004)
- Rational expectations and ambiguity: A comment on Abel (2002)
Economics Bulletin, 2006, 4, (2), 1-15 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper Rational Expectations and Ambiguity: A Comment on Abel (2002), Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications (2004) View citations (3) (2004)
- Uniqueness conditions for strongly point-rationalizable solutions to games with metrizable strategy sets
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2006, 42, (6), 729-751 View citations (3)
2005
- Equivalence between best responses and undominated strategies: a generalization from finite to compact strategy sets
Economics Bulletin, 2005, 3, (7), 1-6 View citations (6)
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