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Uzi Segal

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Uzi Segal

Ph.D.

Contact

Maloney Hall 391B

Telephone: 617-552-1567

Email: uzi.segal@bc.edu

Education

  • B.Sc., Hebrew University
  • M.A., Hebrew University
  • Ph.D., Hebrew University

Courses

ECON3329 Decisions: Theory and Experiments

ECON8884 Distributive Justice

Expertise

  • Decision Theory
  • Social Choice and Justice
  • Law and Economics

external resources

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Curriculum Vitae

Department

Economics

Downloadable 艾可直播 College Working Papers

Working Paper听1111.听Chaim听Fershtman (Tel Aviv University) and Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College), "What Do You Want Me To Say?" (05/2026; PDF)

Working Paper听1108.听Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College) and Zhuzhu Zhou (Xiamen University), "Aggregating Wrong Preferences" (03/2026; PDF)

Working Paper听1065. David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania), Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College), "Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences", (03/2024; PDF)

Working Paper听1057. Zvi Safra (Warwick Business School), Uzi Segal听 (艾可直播 College), "Large Compound Lotteries", (08/2023; PDF)

Working Paper听1034.听Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College), "For all or exists?" (04/2021; PDF)

Working Paper听1027. David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania) and Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College), "Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction." (02/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 999.听Chaim Fershtman (Tel Aviv University) and Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College). "Social Influence in Legal Deliberations." (rev. 09/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 998.听Christina Letsou (艾可直播 College), Shlomo Naeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College). "All probabilities are equal, but some probabilities are more equal than others." (04/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 964. Sushil Bikhchandani (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Uzi Segal (艾可直播 College), "Intransitivity in the Small and in the Large", (rev. 04/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 954. Zvi Safra, Warwick Business School, and Uzi Segal,听A Lot of Ambiguity", (03/2020; PDF)

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Publications

Calibration results for incomplete preferences (with Z. Safra), Revue Economique, forthcoming.

Preferences and social influence (with C. Fershtman), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10 (2018), 124--142.

Skewed noise (with D. Dillenberger).听 Journal of Economic Theory, 169 (2017), 344--364.听

Recursive ambiguity and Machina's examples (with D. Dillenberger). International Economic Review, 56 (2015), 55--61.

Transitive regret over statistically independent lotteries (with S. Bikhchandani). Journal of Economic Theory, 152 (2014), 237--248.

Utilitarianism and discrimination (with A. Harel). Social Choice & Welfare, 42 (2014), 367--380.

Who benefits from the uniformity of contingent fee rates? (with E. Zamir and B. Medina). Review of Law & Economics, 9 (2013), 357--387.

Ranking ranking rules (with B. Medina and S. Naeh). Review of Law & Economics, 9 (2013), 73--96.

On the likelihood of cyclic comparisons (with A. Rubinstein). Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (2012) 2483-2491.

No externalities: a characterization of efficiency and incentive compatibility with public goods (with J. Ostroy). Social Choice & Welfare, 39 (2012), 697-719.

Transitive regret (with Sushil Bikhchandani). Theoretical Economics, 6 (2011), 95-108.

Risk aversion in the small and in the large: Calibration results for betweenness functionals (Zvi Safra). Journal of Risk & Uncertainty, 38:1 (2009), 27-37.

Calibration results for non-expected utility theories (with Zvi Safra). Econometrica, 76:5 (2008), 1143-1166.

A Characterization of Intrinsic Reciprocity (with Joel Sobel). International Journal of Game Theory, 36:3-4 (2008), 571-585.Recursive ambiguity and Machina's examples (with D. Dillenberger). International Economic Review, 56 (2015), 55--61.

Transitive regret over statistically independent lotteries (with S. Bikhchandani). Journal of Economic Theory, 152 (2014), 237--248.

Utilitarianism and discrimination (with A. Harel). Social Choice & Welfare, 42 (2014), 367--380.

Who benefits from the uniformity of contingent fee rates? (with E. Zamir and B. Medina). Review of Law & Economics, 9 (2013), 357--387.

Ranking ranking rules (with B. Medina and S. Naeh). Review of Law & Economics, 9 (2013), 73--96.

On the likelihood of cyclic comparisons (with A. Rubinstein). Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (2012) 2483-2491.

No externalities: a characterization of efficiency and incentive compatibility with public goods (with J. Ostroy). Social Choice & Welfare, 39 (2012), 697-719.

Transitive regret (with Sushil Bikhchandani). Theoretical Economics, 6 (2011), 95-108.

Risk aversion in the small and in the large: Calibration results for betweenness functionals (Zvi Safra). Journal of Risk & Uncertainty, 38:1 (2009), 27-37.

Calibration results for non-expected utility theories (with Zvi Safra). Econometrica, 76:5 (2008), 1143-1166.

A Characterization of Intrinsic Reciprocity (with Joel Sobel). International Journal of Game Theory, 36:3-4 (2008), 571-585.

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