Simon Grant – ANU Economist

 

John C. Harsanyi Chair of Economics,
Research School of Economics, Australian National University

research interests

Microeconomics: Decision theory and Game Theory. In particular: developing theories of rational decision in the presence of uncertainty and/or unawareness; applying non-expected utility theory to games, bargaining and social choice.

working papers

• “Recursive Expected Uncertain Utility.” July 2025. 
• “Strategic Ambiguity in Multi-Stage Games with Almost Perfect Information” (with J. Eichberger and D. Kelsey), June 2024.
• “Decision Under Ambiguity via Intermediate Microeconomics” (with P. Rich and J. Stecher), September 2023.

forthcoming

recent publications

• “Ulysses Revisited: How an Expressed Preference for External Control Reveals the Limit of Willpower,” (with Meng-Yu Liang), Theory and Decision, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-025-10037-z
• “Expected Balanced Uncertain Utility,” (with B. Roorda and J. Yang), Theoretical Economics (20), 1-25, 2025.
• “A Comment on Expected Uncertain Utility“ (with Sh. L. Liu and J. Yang), Econometrica, 92(1), 247-256, 2024.
• Testing Hurwicz Expected Utility (with H. Bleichrodt and J. Yang), Econometrica, 91(4), 1393-1416, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA19221
• “Delegation and ambiguity in correlated equilibrium” (with R. Stauber), Games and Economic Behavior, 132, 487-509, 2022.
• “Learning under Unawareness” (with I. Meneghel and R. Tourky), Economic Theory, 74, 447-475, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-021-01408-y
• “Bayes and Hurwicz without Bernoulli” (with P. Rich and J. Stecher), Journal of Economic Theory. 199, 105027, 2022.
• “Testing Dynamic Consistency and Consequentialism Under Ambiguity” (with H. Bleichrodt, J. Eichberger, D. Kelsey, and C. Li), European Economics Review, 134, 1-12, 2021  On line appendix. 

• Objective and Subjective Rationality and Decisions with the Best- and Worst-Case in Mind (with P. Rich and J. Stecher), Theory and Decision, 90, 309-320, 2021,  (DOI) 10.1007/s11238-020-09777-x
• “Ambiguity and Awareness: A Coherent Multiple Priors Model” (with A. Guerdjikova and John Quiggin), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 21(2), 571 – 612, 2021.