Publications

(2025). Why Do Migrants Stay Unexpectedly?. Journal of Mathematical Economics.

(2024). Continuations: What Have They Ever Done for Us? (Experience Report). FUNARCH 2024.

(2024). Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers. Quarterly Journal of Economics.

(2022). Projection Bias in Effort Choices. Games and Economic Behavior.

(2011). Theory and evidence on the economics of energy efficiency. Lessons for the Belgian building sector. Reflets et Perspectives de la vie Économique.

Working Papers

How Secondary Markets Undermine Social Responsibility

We model and analyze secondary markets for durable goods when primary-market production causes negative externalities and …

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The Dynamics of Chosen Beliefs: An Optimism-Confidence Trade-Off

We study belief dynamics of an agent who repeatedly ‘‘chooses’’ new beliefs, optimally trading off costs from …

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Arbitraging Narrow Brackets

Many important economic outcomes result from the combined effects of several choices, so the best option is not determined from each …

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Excuse Driven Present Bias

We test whether people behave in a more present-biased way when they can excuse such behavior. We run two experiments, one on the …

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