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Ben Polak

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Publications

23

Citations

1.1K

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18

Active since

1992

Affiliations

Yale University(Current)

Australian National University

University of Tsukuba

The University of Queensland

Rice University

Ben Polak is an author at Yale University specializing in business, economics, and decision theory.

Top concepts

BusinessEconomicsManagementDecision TheoryDecision ScienceFinanceBehavioral EconomicsStatisticsMechanism DesignBehavioral Decision Making

Publications per year

1992–2013

23

Publications

23

When Managers Cover Their Posteriors: Making the Decisions the Market Wants to See

Adam Brandenburger, Ben Polak · The RAND Journal of Economics · 1996 · 210 citations

Behavioral Decision Making, Behavioral Finance, Management +22

Intrinsic Preference for Information

Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii, Ben Polak · Journal of Economic Theory · 1998 · 135 citations · Full text

Behavioral Decision Making, Choice Theory, Risk Loving +21

The Emergence of a National Capital Market in England, 1710–1880

Moshe Buchinsky, Ben Polak · The Journal of Economic History · 1993 · 95 citations

Economics, Financial Economics, National Capital Market +11

Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem

Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii, Ben Polak et al. · Econometrica · 2010 · 67 citations

Regulating Consumer Bankruptcy: A Theoretical Inquiry

Barry E. Adler, Ben Polak, Alan Schwartz · The Journal of Legal Studies · 2000 · 65 citations

Economics, Consumer Protection Law, Principal/agent Framework +15

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