PHILIPP SADOWSKI
March 2021
Department of Economics [email protected] Duke University 919 660 1821 Box 90097 Durham, NC 27708, USA
POSITION Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, since 2017 Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University, 2014-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2008-2014
EDUCATION Princeton University, Ph.D. Economics, 2008 Bonn University, Germany, M.S. Physics, 2002
PUBLISHED PAPERS ‘Randomly Evolving Tastes and Delayed Commitment’ with R. Vijay Krishna Journal of Mathematical Economics 92, 2021, 81-94
‘Preferences with Taste Shock Representations: Price Volatility and the Liquidity Premium’ with R. Vijay Krishna, Mathematical Social Sciences 101, 2019, 41-46
‘Stable Behavior and Generalized Partition’ with David Dillenberger Economic Theory 68, 2019, 285-302 `Magical Thinking: A Representation Result’ with Brendan Daley Theoretical Economics 12(2), 2017, 909–956 ‘Overeagerness’ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 131(A), 2016, 114-125 ‘A Theory of Subjective Learning’ with David Dillenberger, Juan Lleras, Norio Takeoka Journal of Economic Theory 153, 2014, 287-312 ‘Dynamic Preference for Flexibility’ with R. Vijay Krishna Econometrica 82(2), 2014, 655-704 ‘Contingent Preference for Flexibility: Eliciting Beliefs from Behavior’ Theoretical Economics 8, 2013, 503-534 ‘Ashamed to be Selfish’ with David Dillenberger Theoretical Economics 7, 2012, 99–124
WORKING PAPERS ‘An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences’ with Todd Sarver, April 2020 ‘Subjective Information Choice Processes’ with David Dillenberger and R. Vijay Krishna, March 2020 ‘Information-dependent Utilities and Beliefs’ with David Dillenberger and R. Vijay Krishna, April 2020
EDITORIAL POSITIONS Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics, since 2020
REFEREEING American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, National Science Foundation
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS NSF grant SES-1851664, ‘Evolution and Adaptation: Ambiguity Attitudes with Optimal Risk Preferences’, with Todd Sarver, 2019-2022 NSF grant SES-1461502, ‘Dynamic Rational Inattention’, with David Dillenberger and R. Vijya Krishna, 2015-2018 SSRI Faculty Fellowship, Duke University, 2009/10 ERP-Stipend, German Academic Foundation, 2006/07 and 2007/08 Graduate Prize Fellowship, Princeton University Center of Human Values, 2005/06 BCG Fast-Forward, 2002 – 2008 Stanford University Research Grant, January 2001 – January 2002
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Co-organizer, “Decision Day at Duke” ERID-Conference, Duke University, 2015 Organizer, “Decision Day at Duke” ERID-Conference, Duke University, 2013 Co-organizer, RUD (Risk, Uncertainty and Decision), Duke University, 2009
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Visiting Professor, University of Chile, Spring 2019 Visiting Associate, The Boston Consulting Group, Munich, April – July 2002 Researcher, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratories, Stanford University, January 2001 – February 2002
PHD ADVISING Taishi Sassano, PhD candidate (chair) Erica Liu, PhD candidate (co-chair) Mengke Wang, PhD 2019, University of Sydney (co-chair) Peter Landry, PhD 2013, University of Toronto-Rotman (chair) Alex Groves, PhD 2012, ECARES Brussels postdoc (chair)