Sarah Auster How Do People Make Timing Decisions in Situations Where They Have Little Experience and Insufficient Data?
Sarah Auster is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Microeconomics at the University of Bonn. Having completed her PhD at the European University Institute, Auster previously worked at Bocconi University and the University of Mannheim. Her main research interests include contract theory, decision theory and mechanism design and search. Winner of the 2015 Vilfredo Pareto prize, Auster’s work has been published in journals including Theoretical Economics and the Journal of Economic Theory.
Area of Research
Decision Theory
since 2020
Associate Professor
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
Institute for Microeconomics
2019-2020
Assistant Professor
University of Mannheim (Universität Mannheim)
Department of Economics
2014-2019
Assistant Professor
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
Department of Decision Sciences
2004-2009
Ph.D. in Economics
European University Institute
2004-2009
Diploma in Economics
University of Würzburg (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
- Decisions in Economics and Finance
- Econometrica
- Theoretical Economics
- Journal of the European Economic Association
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Institute
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS is a cooperation between the University of Bonn and the University of Mannheim. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it aims to analyze and provide policy proposals that address three key societal challenges: how to promote equality of opportunity; how to regulate markets in light of the internationalization and digitalization of economic activity; and how to safeguard the stability of the financial system.
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Individuals and governments often do not have as much time or experience as they would like when they need to make a decision. In this video, SARAH AUSTER explores the mechanism by which such decisions are made. Building a game theoretical model that draws on auction theory and decision theory, Auster’s work shows that certain forms of auction design favor the seller and that supplementary information provided to bidders can help to level the playing field. Auster’s continuing research on timing decisions will examine the role played by degrees of certainty around the “stopping payoff”.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10915