David S. Ahn

Professor of Economics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

Curriculum vitae

• Curriculum vitae, November 2020 (PDF)

Research

• Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms (in revision for resubmission to Econometrica), with Joseph Root, June 2020 (PDF)
• Uncertainty from the Small to the Large, with Wenfeng Qiu, Journal of Economic Theory, 198, 105367, December 2021 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to ScienceDirect)
• Naivete about Temptation and Self-Control: Foundations for Naive Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, with Ryota Iijima and Todd Sarver, Journal of Economic Theory, 189, 105087, September 2020 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to ScienceDirect)
• Behavioural Characterizations of Naivete for Time-Inconsistent Preferences, with Ryota Iijima, Yves Le Yaouanq, and Todd Sarver, Review of Economic Studies, 86(6): 2319-2355, November 2019 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to Oxford University Press Journals)
  • Supplementary appendix for “Behavioural Characterizations of Naivete for Time-Inconsistent Preferences” (PDF)
• On Path Independent Stochastic Choice, with Federico Echenique and Kota Saito, Theoretical Economics, 13(1): 61-85, January 2018 (PDF)
• Approval Voting and Scoring Rules with Common Values, with Santiago Oliveros,  Journal of Economic Theory, 166: 204-301, November 2016 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to ScienceDirect)
• Estimating Ambiguity Aversion in a Portfolio Choice Experiment, with Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, and Shachar Kariv, Quantitative Economics, 5(2): 195-223, July 2014 (PDF)
  • Appendix I (PDF), Appendix II (PDF), Appendix III (PDF), Appendix IV (PDF), Appendix V (PDF), Appendix VI (PDF), Appendix VII (PDF), Appendix VIII (PDF),  Appendix IX (PDF),  Appendix X (PDF)
• The Condorcet Jur(ies) Theorem, with Santiago Oliveros,  Journal of Economic Theory, 150: 841-851, March 2014 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to ScienceDirect)
• Preference for Flexibility and Random Choice, with Todd Sarver, Econometrica, 81(1): 341-361, January 2013 (PDF)
  • Supplement to “Preference for Flexibility and Random Choice” (PDF)
• Combinatorial Voting, with Santiago Oliveros, Econometrica 80(1): 89-141, January 2012 (PDF)
• What’s on the Menu? Deciding What is Available to the Group, with Christopher P. Chambers, June 2010 (PDF)
• Framing Contingencies, with Haluk Ergin, Econometrica 78(2): 655-695, March 2010 (PDF)
  • Supplement to “Framing Contingencies” (PDF)
• Ambiguity Without a State Space, Review of Economic Studies 75(1): 3-28, January 2008 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to Oxford University Press Journals)
  • Older version, with additional results (PDF)
• Hierarchies of Ambiguous Beliefs, Journal of Economic Theory 136(1): 286-301, September 2007 (PDF)
  • Published version (link to ScienceDirect)
  • Online appendix to “Hierarchies of Ambiguous Beliefs” (PDF)
• A Generic Bound on Cycles in Two-Player Games, February 2006 (PDF)