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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. I will be on the 2026-27 job market.

Working Papers

  1. Risk Aversion Reversals
    (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

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)
  • Induced Lotteries from Stochastic Choice
    (with Po Hyun Sung)