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Ben Wincelberg

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Caltech

Here is my CV.

About Me

I am a 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.

I will be on the 2026-27 job market.

Working Papers

  1. Risk Aversion Reversals Job Market Paper
    with Po Hyun Sung
    Extended Abstract at EC '26. Awarded Best Third Year Paper, HSS Caltech (2025)
  2. Monotonicity and Bracketing in Games
    with Fedor Sandomirskiy, Po Hyun Sung, and Omer Tamuz
    Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
  3. A Separability Foundation for Random Coefficients Logit
    with Fedor Sandomirskiy, Po Hyun Sung, and Omer Tamuz
    Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review
  4. Delegation in Strategic Environments and Equilibrium Uniqueness
    with Fedor Sandomirskiy
    Extended Abstract at EC '26
  5. Measuring Economic Preferences in the Presence of Noise: The Connections Between Choices and Valuations
    with Ted O'Donoghue, Charles Sprenger, and Po Hyun Sung

In Progress

  • An Actuarial Characterization of Expected Shortfall
    with Tommaso Denti, Luciano Pomatto, and Po Hyun Sung
  • Foundations for Robust Optimization: Divergence Preferences
    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
  • Induced Lotteries from Stochastic Choice
    with Po Hyun Sung