Research Interests for Todd Sarver

Todd Sarver’s research focuses on microeconomic theory, decision theory, and behavioral economics. His interests include modeling psychological phenomenon such as regret and temptation, cognitive constraints and bounded rationality, and attitudes toward risk in dynamic environments. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, and his most recent work has been published in Econometrica and Games and Economic Behavior.

Recent Publications

1. Sadowski, P; Sarver, T, Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 218 (June, 2024) [doi] [abs]
2. Sarver, T; Sadowski, P, An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences (December, 2019)
3. Ahn, DS; Iijima, R; Le Yaouanq, Y; Sarver, T, Behavioral Characterizations of Naiveté for Time-Inconsistent Preferences, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper no. 2074 (November, 2018)
4. Ahn, DS; Iijima, R; Sarver, T, Naiveté About Temptation and Self-Control: Foundations for Naive Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper no. 2099 (February, 2018)
5. Sarver, T, Dynamic Mixture-Averse Preferences, Econometrica, vol. 86 no. 4 (January, 2018), pp. 1347-1382 [doi] [abs]