Carlos Oyarzun joined the School of Economics of The University of Queensland, Australia, in July 2011. His research, in collaboration with several co-authors, establishes close relationships between Individual and Social Learning models, on one hand, and some aspects of traditional Decision Theory, such as Expected Utility Theory, on the other. He also studies the impact of different aspects of Social Comparison processes, such as segregation, overconfidence, and unbalanced societies with visible minorities, on the choices of individuals in Social Learning models. Finally, he is also engaged in the study of Strategic Information Transmission and Persuasion models.
Published Articles
Mean and Variance Responsive Learning (with Rajiv Sarin), forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior. (2010)
A learning rule is variance-averse if the expected reduced-distribution of payoff s in the next period...
Monotone Imitation (with Johannes Ruf), Economic Theory (2009)
We analyze the social learning process of a group of individuals who have limited information...
Working Papers
Social-Comparison-Based Learning in a Heterogeneous Population (with Jonas Hedlund) (2011)
This paper examines social learning in a heterogenous population. Payoff distributions of actions differ across...
Learning and Risk Aversion (with Rajiv Sarin), revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory. (2011)
We study the manner in which learning shapes our behavior towards risk. Individuals are not...
Persuasive Talk: Delegation, Competition, and Announcements (with Paan Jindapon), Submitted (2011)
We study persuasion in a modified Crawford-Sobel sender-receiver game in which the receiver makes a...