Publications

Patience Ensures Fairness
With Andrew Mackenzie. Working paper (May 2026)
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2026
Sequential Sampling under Adversarial Manipulation
With Xianwen Shi. Working paper (April 2026)
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2026
Axioms for Correlated Equilibrium
Working paper (March 2026)
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2026
On the Inefficiency of Social Learning
With Wanying Huang and Atulya Jain. Working paper (February 2026)
[pdf] [arxiv]
2026
The Social Learning Barrier
Working paper (R&R at Econometrica) (November 2025)
[pdf] [arxiv] [video]
2025
Dividing a cake for the irrationally entitled
With Andrew Mackenzie. Working paper (August 2025)
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2025
Introduction to Decision Theory
Lecture notes (May 2025)
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2025
Efficient and Fair Healthcare Rationing
With Haris Aziz. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 80, 2024
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2024
An Axiomatic Characterization of Nash Equilibrium
With Felix Brandt. Theoretical Economics, 19(4):1473–1504, 2024
[pdf] [arxiv]
2024
Disinformation in the Wald Model
With Xianwen Shi. Working paper (July 2024)
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2024
A Natural Adaptive Process for Collective Decision-Making
With Felix Brandt. Theoretical Economics, 19(2):667-703, 2024
[pdf] [arxiv]
2024
Approval Voting under Dichotomous Preferences: A Catalogue of Characterizations
With Dominik Peters. Journal of Economic Theory, 205, 2022
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2022
The Vigilant Eating Rule: A General Approach for Probabilistic Economic Design with Constraints
With Haris Aziz. Games and Economic Behavior, 135:168-187, 2022
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2022
Funding Public Projects: A Case for the Nash Product Rule
With Felix Brandt, Matthias Greger, Dominik Peters, Christian Stricker, and Warut Suksompong. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 99, 2022
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2022
An Analytical and Experimental Comparison of Maximal Lottery Schemes
With Felix Brandt and Christian Stricker. Social Choice and Welfare, 58(1):5--38, 2022
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2022
Belief-Averaging and Relative Utilitarianism
Journal of Economic Theory, 198, 2021
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2021
Distribution Rules Under Dichotomous Preferences: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
With Felix Brandt and Dominik Peters and Christian Stricker. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC), pages 158–179. ACM Press, 2021
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2021
Efficient, Fair, and Incentive-Compatible Healthcare Rationing
With Haris Aziz. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC), pages 103–104. ACM Press, 2021
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2021
Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences
With Felix Brandt. Econometrica, 88(2):799-844, 2020
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2020
An Axiomatic Characterization of the Borda Mean Rule
With Dominik Peters. Social Choice and Welfare, 52(4):685–707, 2019
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2019
Fractional Hedonic Games
With Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt, Paul Harrenstein, Martin Olsen, and Dominik Peters. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 7(2), 2019
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2019
Justifying Optimal Play via Consistency
With Felix Brandt. Theoretical Economics, 14:1185-1201, 2019
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2019
Strategic Abstention based on Preference Extensions: Positive Results and Computer-Generated Impossibilities
With Felix Brandt, Christian Geist, and Johannes Hofbauer. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 66:1031-1056, 2019
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2019
Two Problems in Max-size Popular Matchings
With Telikepalli Kavitha. Algorithmica, 81(7):2738–2764, 2019
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2019
Welfare Maximization Entices Participation
With Felix Brandt and Johannes Hofbauer. Games and Economic Behavior, 14:308–314, 2019
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2019
An Analytical and Experimental Comparison of Maximal Lottery Schemes
With Felix Brandt and Christian Stricker. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 114–120. IJCAI, 2018
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2018
On the Tradeoff between Efficiency and Strategyproofness
With Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt, and Markus Brill. Games and Economic Behavior, 110:1–18, 2018
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2018
Popular Matchings with Multiple Partners
With Telikepalli Kavitha. In Proceedings of the 37th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pages 19:1–19:15. LZI, 2018
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2018
Proving the Incompatibility of Efficiency and Strategyproofness via SMT Solving
With Felix Brandt, Manuel Eberl, and Christian Geist. Journal of the ACM, 65(2), 2018
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2018
Zero-Sum Games in Social Choice and Game Theory
PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2018
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2018
Random Assignment with Optional Participation
With Felix Brandt and Johannes Hofbauer. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 326–334. IFAAMAS, 2017
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2017
The Distribution of Optimal Strategies in Symmetric Zero-sum Games
Games and Economic Behavior, 104:674–680, 2017
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2017
Consistent Probabilistic Social Choice
With Felix Brandt and Hans Georg Seedig. Econometrica, 84(5):1839–1880, 2016
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2016
Proving the Incompatibility of Efficiency and Strategyproofness via SMT Solving
With Felix Brandt and Christian Geist. In Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 116–122. AAAI Press, 2016
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2016
The Impossibility of Extending Random Dictatorship to Weak Preferences
With Felix Brandt and Warut Suksompong. Economics Letters, 141:44–47, 2016
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2016
Fractional Hedonic Games: Individual and Group Stability
With Felix Brandt and Martin Strobel. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1219–1227. IFAAMAS, 2015
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2015
Incentives for Participation and Abstention in Probabilistic Social Choice
With Felix Brandt and Johannes Hofbauer. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1411–1419. IFAAMAS, 2015
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2015
Strategic Abstention based on Preference Extensions: Positive Results and Computer-Generated Impossibilities
With Felix Brandt, Christian Geist, and Johannes Hofbauer. In Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 18–24. AAAI Press, 2015
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2015
Universal Pareto Dominance and Welfare for Plausible Utility Functions
With Haris Aziz and Felix Brandt. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 60:123–133, 2015
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2015
On the Incompatibility of Efficiency and Strategyproofness in Randomized Social Choice
With Haris Aziz and Felix Brandt. In Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 545–551. AAAI Press, 2014
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2014
Universal Pareto Dominance and Welfare for Plausible Utility Functions
With Haris Aziz and Felix Brandt. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC), pages 331–332. ACM Press, 2014
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2014
Efficiency and Incentives in Randomized Social Choice
Master's thesis, Technische Universität München, 2013
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2013
Existence of Stability in Hedonic Coalition Formation Games
With Haris Aziz. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 763–770. IFAAMAS, 2012
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2012