F. Echenique

Published or forthcoming papers

Roughly classified into:

• Revealed Preference Theory
• Matching
• Economics of discrimination
• Monotone Comparative Statics
• Game Theory
• CS/Econ
• Social Networks
• Econometrics
• Other

(With some overlap.)

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A bibbase listing with bibtex citations.

Publications in chronological order are here. And here is my Caltech CODA page.

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Working papers are here.

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Revealed Preference/Decision Theory

• "Approximate expected utility rationalization" (with Taisuke Imai and Kota Saito) [PDF] (online appendix)
  Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 21(5) pp 1821--1864, Oct 2023
• "Decreasing impatience" (with Chris Chambers and Alan Miller) [PDF]. arXiv:2103.03290
  AEJ Micro, forthcoming.
• "Twofold Multiprior Preferences and Failures of Contingent Reasoning" (with Masaki Miyashita, Yuta Nakamura, Luciano Pomatto and Jamie Vinson)
  [PDF]. arXiv:2012.14557
  Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 202, 2022.
• "Recovering Preferences from Finite Data" (with Chris Chambers and Nico Lambert); [PDF] [OA]
  Econometrica, 89(4) pp1633-1664, July 2021.
• "Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice:
  Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations" (with Taisuke Imai and Kota Saito)
  AEJ Microeconomics, 12(4) pp 114-143, November 2020. [PDF] [slides]
• "Spherical preferences" (with Chris Chambers ) arXiv:1905.02917
  Journal of Economic Theory Volume 189, September 2020. [PDF]
• "On the falsifiability and learnability of decision theories" (with Pathikrit Basu).
  Theoretical Economics Volume 15, No 4, pp 1279-1305, November 2020. [PDF]
• "New developments in revealed preference theory: decisions under risk, uncertainty, and intertemporal choice"
  Annual Reviews of Economics, Volume 12(1), August 2020.
  DOI:annurev-economics-082019-110800 [PDF]
• "The Pareto comparisons of a group of exponential discounters" (with Chris Chambers) [PDF]
  Mathematics of Operations Research, 45(2), pp 622-640, May 2020.
• "General Luce Model" (with Kota Saito) [PDF]
  Economic Theory Volume 68, pp. 811--826 November 2019
• "On multiple discount rates" (with Chris Chambers); [PDF]
  Econometrica Volume 86, No. 4 July 2018 pp. 1325-1346.
• "The Perception Adjusted Luce Model" (with Kota Saito and Gerelt Tserenjigmid ) [PDF]
  Mathematical Social Sciences. Volume 93 (May 2018) pp. 67 - 76.
• "On path independent stochastic choice" (with David Ahn and Kota Saito) [PDF]
  Theoretical Economics, Volume 13(1); pages 61--86, 2018.
• "A characterization of combinatorial demand" (with Chris Chambers); arXiv:1605.09761. [PDF]
  Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 43(1); pages 222-227, 2018.
• "General Revealed Preference Theory" (with Chris Chambers and Eran Shmaya); [PDF] [slides]
  Theoretical Economics, 12 (May 2017), 493-511
• "Response time and utility" (with Kota Saito) [PDF]
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 139, July 2017, Pages 49-59.
• "Testing theories of financial decision making" (formerly titled "Testable Implications of Translation Invariance and Homotheticity: Variational, Maxmin, Cara and CRRA Preferences") (with Chris Chambers and Kota Saito)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 113, Number 15; April 12, 2016. [PDF]
• "The empirical implications of privacy-aware choice" (with Rachel Cummings and Adam Wierman). arXiv:1401.0336
  Operations Research, [PDF] Volume 64, number 1, pages 67--78, 2016.
• "Savage in the Market" (with Kota Saito)
  Econometrica; Volume 83, No. 4, July, 2015, pages 1467-1495. [PDF] [Online Appendix] [slides]
• "The Axiomatic Structure of Empirical Content" (with Chris Chambers and Eran Shmaya);
  American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 8, August 2014, pages 2303-19. [PDF]
• "On the consistency of data with bargaining theories" (with Chris Chambers);
  Theoretical Economics, Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2014), pp 137-162. [PDF]
• "The Revealed Preference Theory of Stable and Extremal Stable Matchings" (with SangMok Lee, Bumin Yenmez, and Matt Shum)
  Econometrica, Volume 81, No. 1 (January 2013), pp 153-171. [PDF]
• "The Money Pump as a Measure of Revealed Preference Violations" (with SangMok Lee and Matt Shum)
  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 119, No. 6, December 2011. [PDF]
• "Implications of Pareto Efficiency for Two-Agent (Household) Choice" (with Lozan Ivanov)
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 47, Issue 2, March 2011, pp 129-136. [PDF]
• "Testable Implications of Gross Substitutes in Demand for Two Goods" (with Chris Chambers and Eran Shmaya)
  AEJ Microeconomics, Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2011, pp 129-36. [PDF]
• "On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications" (with Chris Chambers and Eran Shmaya)
  Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 145, Issue 6, November 2010, Pages 2332-2355. [PDF]
• "Supermodularity and Preferences" (with Chris Chambers),
  Journal of Economic Theory,. Volume 144, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 1004-1014 [PDF]
  
• "What Matchings can be Stable ? The Testable Implications of Matching Theory"
  Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 33 Issue 3, August 2008. Pages 757-768. [PDF].
  
• "Profit Maximization and Supermodular Technology" (with Chris Chambers).
  Economic Theory, Volume 40, Number 2, August, 2009, pp 173-183. [PDF]
• "Ordinal Notions of Submodularity" (with Chris Chambers).
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 44, Issue 11, December 2008, pages 1243-1245. [PDF]
  

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Matching Theory

• "Balanced equilibrium in pseudo-markets with endowments" (with Antonio Miralles and Jun Zhang);
  [PDF]
  Games and Economic Behavior Vol 141 pp 428-443. Sept 2023.
• "Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match" (with Ruy Gonzalez, Alistair Wilson and Leeat Yariv)
  arXiv:2002.05323 [PDF] [OA]
  American Economic Review Insights. Volume 4(2) June 2022.
• "Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium" (with Antonio Miralles and Jun Zhang);
  arXiv:1909.05986 [PDF]
  American Economic Review, 111(11), pp 3699-3732, November 2021.
• "Fairness and efficiency for probabilistic allocations with participation constraints" (with Antonio Miralles and Jun Zhang); arXiv:1908.04336; [PDF].
  Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 195 July 2021.
• ``Stability and Median Rationalizability for Aggregate Matchings'' (with SangMok Lee, Bumin Yenmez, and Matt Shum)
  Games 12(2), 2021.
• Clearinghouses for two-sided matching: An experimental study (with Alistair Wilson and Leeat Yariv) [PDF]
  Quantitative Economics Volume 7(2) July 2016
• "Ordinal and cardinal solution concepts for two-sided matching" (with Alfred Galichon)
  Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 101(1), January 2017, pages 63-77 [PDF]
• "How to control controlled school choice" (with Bumin Yenmez)
  American Economic Review, Volume 105(8), August 2015, pages 2679-94.
  [PDF] [appendix] [slides]. Corrigendum by Battal Dogan.
  WP version of the paper, which features endogenous priorities.
• "Strategic uncertainty and unraveling in matching markets" (with Juan Pereyra)
  Theoretical Economics, Volume 11, Number 1 (January 2016), pages 1-39. [PDF]
• "Core Matchings of Markets with Transfers" (with Chris Chambers)
  AEJ Microeconomics, Volume 7, Number 1 (February 2015). Pages 144-64. [PDF]
• "The Revealed Preference Theory of Stable and Extremal Stable Matchings" (with SangMok Lee, Bumin Yenmez, and Matt Shum)
  Econometrica, Volume 81, No. 1 (January 2013), pp 153-171. [PDF]
• "Contracts vs. Salaries in Matching"
  American Economic Review, Volume 102, Issue 1, February 2012, pages 594-601. [PDF]
• "Sequential Entry in Many-to-one Matching Markets" (with Elette Boyle),
  Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 33, issue 1, June 2009, pp 87-99. [PDF]
  Here is Elette's C++ program for computing the sequential-entry outcomes.
• "What Matchings can be Stable ? The Testable Implications of Matching Theory"
  Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 33 Issue 3, August 2008. Pages 757-768. [PDF].
  
• "A Solution to Matching with Preferences over Colleagues" (with M. Bumin Yenmez).
  Games and Economic Behavior Volume 59, number 1, April 2007, pages 46-71. [PDF]
  
• "Counting Combinatorial Choice Rules"
  Games and Economic Behavior Volume 58, Issue 2, February 2007, Pages 231-245. [PDF]
• "A Theory of Stability in Many-to-many Matching Markets" (with Jorge Oviedo)
  Theoretical Economics. Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 233-273. [PDF]
  
• "Core Many-to-one Matchings by Fixed Point Methods" (with Jorge Oviedo)
  Journal of Economic Theory. Volume 115, Issue 2 , April 2004, Pages 358-376. [PDF]
  

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Economics of discrimination

• Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab (with Ahrash Dianat and Leeat Yariv)
  Caltech SSWP 1439 [PDF] [Appendix]
  Games and Economic Behavior Vol 132, 2022, pp. 41--58.
• A characterization of "Phelpsian" statistical discrimination (with Chris Chambers)
  arXiv:1808.01351 [PDF]
  The Economic Journal Vol 131(637), Aug 2020, pp. 2018-2032.

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Monotone Comparative Statics

• "English Auctions and the Stolper- Samuelson Theorem" (with Juan Dubra and Alejandro Manelli.)
  Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 144, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 825-849. [PDF]
  (The WP version has some simple comparative statics linking English Auctions and Stolper-Samuelson.)
• "A Weak Correspondence Principle for Models with Complementarities"
  Journal of Mathematical Economics Volume 40, Issues 1-2, pages 145--152, February 2004.[PDF]
  
• "Strong Comparative Statics of Equilibria" (with Tarun Sabarwal)
  Games and Economic Behavior. Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2003, Pages 307-314 [PDF]
• "Comparative Statics by Adaptive Dynamics and The Correspondence Principle,"
  Econometrica, v70(2), March 2002 [PDF].
  The working paper version (Berkeley WP E00-273) contains more results and details.
• "The Correspondence Principle."
  An entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (second ed.). [PS] [PDF]

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Game Theory

• "Finding All Equilibria in Games with Strategic Complements"
  Journal of Economic Theory Volume 135, Issue 1, July 2007, Pages 514-532. [PDF]
  Here is more information about the simulations in "Finding All Equilibria."
• "Mixed Equilibria in Games of Strategic Complements are Unstable" (with Aaron Edlin).
  Journal of Economic Theory. Volume 118, Issue 1, September 2004, Pages 61-79. [PDF]
• "Extensive-Form Games and Strategic Complementarities"
  Games and Economic Behavior. Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 348-364 (February 2004). [PDF]
• "A Characterization of Strategic Complementarities"
  Games and Economic Behavior. Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 325-347 (February 2004). [PDF]
• "Mixed Equilibria in Games of Strategic Complementarities"
  Economic Theory v22(1) 2003, pp 33-44.
• "The Equilibrium Set of a Two Player Game with Complementarities is a Sublattice"
  Economic Theory v22(4) 2003, pp 903-905.

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CS/Econ

• "Screening p-Hackers: Dissemination Noise as Bait" (with Kevin He) PDF
  arXiv:2103.09164
  Proceedings EC'22 (ext. abst.)
• "Closure operators: Complexity and applications to classification and decision-making" (with Hamed Hamze Bajgiran) [PDF].
  arXiv:2202.05339
  Proceedings EC'22
• "The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies" (with Sid Barman)
  arXiv:1905.05165 [PDF]
  Extended abstract in EC'20
  Mathematics of Operations Research, 48(1) pp. 313-331 February 2023.
• "On the falsifiability and learnability of decision theories" (with Pathikrit Basu). [PDF]
  Theoretical Economics Volume 15(4), 2020, 1279--1305.
• "Third-Party Data Providers Ruin Simple Mechanisms" (with Yang Cai, Hu Fu, Katrina Ligett, Adam Wierman, and Juba Ziani)
  arXiv:1802.07407 [PDF]
  SIGMETRICS 2020.
• "Incentive Compatible Active Learning" (with Siddharth Prasad) arXiv:1911.05171
  11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2020).
• "Learnability and models of decision making under uncertainty" (with Pathikrit Basu). Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
• "A characterization of combinatorial demand" (with Chris Chambers); arXiv:1605.09761. [PDF]
  Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 43(1); pages 222-227, 2018.
• "The empirical implications of privacy-aware choice" (with Rachel Cummings and Adam Wierman). arXiv:1401.0336
  Proceedings EC'14 (ext. abst.)
  Operations Research, [PDF] Volume 64, number 1, pages 67--78, 2016.
• "On the Existence of Low-Rank Explanations for Mixed Strategy Behavior" (with Siddharth Barman, Umang Bhaskar, and Adam Wierman).
  arXiv:1311.2655 [PDF] In WINE ( Web and Internet Economics) - 10th International Conference, WINE 2014, Beijing, China, December 14-17, 2014. Proceedings, pages 447-452, 2014.
• "The Empirical Implications of Rank in Bimatrix Games" (with Siddharth Barman, Umang Bhaskar, and Adam Wierman). Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2013.
• "Finding a Walrasian Equilibrium is Easy for a Fixed Number of Agents" (with Adam Weirman) Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2012.[PDF]
• "A Revealed Preference Approach to Computational Complexity in Economics" (with Daniel Golovin and Adam Wierman);
  Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2011.
• "Complexity and economics: computational constraints may not matter empirically" (with Daniel Golovin and Adam Wierman);
  ACM SIGecom Exchanges Volume 10 Issue 1, March 2011 Pages 2-5.

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Social Networks

• "A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions" (with Roland Fryer),
  Quarterly Journal of Economics Volume 122(2), May 2007, pages 441-485. [PDF]
  The calculated segregation indices for major US cities are HERE.
  
• "Is School Segregation Good or Bad?" (with Roland Fryer and Alex Kaufman)
  American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. Volume 96, Issue 2, May 2006, Pages 265-269. [PDF]

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Econometrics

• "Partial identification in two-sided matching models"(with SangMok Lee, and Matt Shum)
  Advances in Econometrics, 2013 Volume 31, pp.117 - 139. [PDF]
• "A test for monotone comparative statics" (with Ivana Komunjer),
  Advances in Econometrics, 2013 Volume 31, pp.183 - 232. [PDF]
• "Testing Models with Multiple Equilibria by Quantile Methods" (with Ivana Komunjer),
  Econometrica, Volume 77 Issue 4, July 2009, pp 1281-1298. [PDF]

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Other

• "Efficiency and Bargaining Power in the Interbank Loan Market" (with Jason Allen, James Chapman, and Matt Shum)
  International Economic Review, Volume 57(2), April 2016, pages 1468-2354. [PDF]
• "When does aggregation reduce risk aversion?" (with Chris Chambers)
  Games and Economic Behavior Volume 76, Issue 2, November 2012, Pages 582-595. [PDF]
• "An Explanation of Inefficient Redistribution: Transfers Insure Cohesive groups" (with Jon Eguia),
  Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Volume 2, Issue 4, November, 2007, pages 287-305. [PDF]
  
• "A Short And Constructive Proof of Tarski's Fixed-Point Theorem"
  International Journal of Game Theory. Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 215-218. [PDF]
  
• "Measurability is not about Information" (with Juan Dubra)
  Mathematical Social Sciences Volume 47, Issue 2, March 2004. Pages 177-185. [PDF]
• "Monotone Preferences over Information" (with Juan Dubra)
  Topics in Theoretical Economics, vol. 1, number 1, article 1, 2001.
• "Are Stabilization Programs Expansionary?" (with Alvaro Forteza)
  Estudios Economicos volume 15 number 1, January-June 2000. [PDF].

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