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Ben Wincelberg

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Caltech

Here is my CV.

About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Caltech working in microeconomic theory. I am interested in the foundations and implications of core economic models of stochastic choice, risk, and strategic interaction.

Working Papers

  1. Monotonicity and Bracketing in Games
    (with Fedor Sandomirskiy, Po Hyun Sung, and Omer Tamuz)
    Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
  2. A Separability Foundation for Random Coefficients Logit
    (with Fedor Sandomirskiy, Po Hyun Sung, and Omer Tamuz)
    Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review
  3. Comparative Risk Attitudes in Stochastic Choice
    (with Po Hyun Sung)
    Awarded Best Third Year Paper, HSS Caltech (2025)
  4. Delegation in Strategic Environments and Equilibrium Uniqueness
    (with Fedor Sandomirskiy)

In Progress

  • An Actuarial Characterization of Expected Shortfall
    (with Luciano Pomatto and Po Hyun Sung)
  • Measuring Economic Preferences in the Presence of Noise: The Connections Between Choices and Valuations
    (with Ted O'Donoghue, Charles Sprenger, and Po Hyun Sung)
  • Variational Preferences with Divergence Costs
    (with Tommaso Denti, Luciano Pomatto, and Po Hyun Sung)
  • Stochastically Ordered Random Utilities
    (with Po Hyun Sung)
  • Bracketing in Rational Inattention
    (with Luciano Pomatto and Po Hyun Sung)