Professor Rajiv Sarin

 

Professor of Economic Theory

Department of Economics

Contact details

Telephone (0121) 414 5025

Fax +44 (0) 121 414 7377

Email r.sarin@bham.ac.uk

The Department of Economics
JG Smith Building
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT

About

Professor Sarin received his PhD from UC San Diego in 1994. He spent 17 years at the Department of Economics at Texas A&M where he was granted tenure in 2000, promoted to Full Professor in 2006, named the Elton Lewis Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts in 2006 and appointed as the Afred Chalk Professor in 2010.  He joined the Department of Economics of the University of Birmingham in September 2011.

Research

Professor Sarin works in decision and game theory. The approach he takes to both are behavioral. He has modeled learning in decisions and games, in the spirit of psychological/behavioral treatments of the subjects. He has also experimentally tested some of the models he has developed as well as those developed by others.

Professor Sarin is leader of the Cluster for Research in Economic Policy using Theory and Experiments (CREPTEX)

Other activities

Member: American Economic Association, Economic Science Association, The Econometric Society.

Publications

-Learning and Risk Aversion," with Carlos Oyarzun, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.

-Learning Mean-Variance Preferences," with Carlos Oyarzun, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.

-“Is Reputation Good or Bad: An Experiment,” with Brit Grosskopf, American Economic Review, , 2010, 2187 - 2204.

-“Generalized Contest Success Functions,”with Birendra Rai, Economic Theory, 40 (2009), 139–149 .

-“Players with Limited Memory,”with Ste¤en Huck, Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 4 (2004), article 6.

- “Strategy Similarity and Coordination,”with Farshid Vahid, Economic Journal, 114 (2004), 506–527.

- “Expedient and Monotone Learning Rules,” with Tilman Börgers and Antonio Morales, Econometrica, 72 (2004), 383–405.

-“Predicting How People Play Games: A Simple Dynamic Model of Choice,” with Farshid Vahid, Games and Economic Behavior, 34 (2001), 104–122.

-  Naive Reinforcement Learning with Endogenous Aspirations,    with Tilman Börgers,   International Economic Review, 41, 921-950

-  Continuous Approximations of Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics,” with Valentina Corradi, Journal of Economic Theory, 94 (2000), 163–191.

-“Decision Rules with Bounded Memory,”Journal of Economic Theory, 90 (2000), 151–160.

- “Payoff Assessments without Probabilities: A Simple DynamicModel of Choice,”with Farshid Vahid, Games and Economic Behavior, 28 (1999), 294–309.

-“Learning Through Reinforcement and Replicator Dynamics,”with Tilman Börgers, Journal of Economic Theory, 77 (1997), 1–14.

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