Selected Papers

When Mandatory Disclosure Hurts: Expert Advice and Conflicting Interests

(with Ming Li)

Journal of Economic Theory

Information Projection: Model and Applications

Review of Economic Studies

Conscience Accounting: Emotion Dynamics and Social Behavior

(with Uri Gneezy and Alex Imas)

Management Science

Sellers with Misspecified Models

(with Andrea Prat)

Review of Economic Studies

Pricing under Fairness Concerns

(with Erik Eyster and Pascal Michaillat)

Journal of the European Economic Association

Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency

American Economic Review

Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion

(with Alex Imas)

Review of Economic Studies

see also https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/psychology-and-economics-exclusion

Projection Equilibrium: Definition and Applications to Social Investment, Communication, and Trade

(2016 version — subsumed by Projective Thinking below)

The Biases of Others: Projection Equilibrium in an Agency Setting

(with David Danz and Stephanie Wang)

Projective Thinking: Model, Evidence, and Applications

(with David Danz and Stephanie Wang)

Limited Perspective Taking in Strategic Communication

(solicited and accepted at Economica)

(for a summary of this paper see, Sobel (2021, JPE) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/704754)

Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade

(with Marek Pycia)

Earlier version Towards a Resolution of the Privacy Paradox (2020) downloads 2020-2021 link (time) link (location)

Abstract published in Part of: Volume: 6th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2025)
Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)

Information Choice in Bilateral Bargaining

(with Marek Pycia)

Transactional Preferences and Public Policy with Application to the Minimum Wage

(with Anna Becker, Attila Lindner, and Heather Sarsons)

Jealousy of Trade: Exclusionary Preferences and Economic Nationalism

(with Alex Imas and Heather Sarsons)

Old Papers:

Rational and Entrepreneurial Actions

A Model of Attention and Anticipation (with Josh Tasoff)