JAWWAD NOOR Department of Economics Boston University 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-4436 jnoor@bu.edu http://people.bu.edu/jnoor ACADEMIC POSITIONS Employment: Department of Economics, Boston University Associate Professor, 2011 - present Assistant Professor, 2005 2011 Visiting Positions: Visiting Associate Professor, 2012-13 Econ Dept, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hallsworth Visiting Professor, June 2018 Econ Dept, University of Manchester EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, University of Rochester, 2005 (Advisor: Prof. Larry Epstein) MA Economics, University of Rochester, 2002 B.Sc. (HON) Economics, University of London, 1997 FIELDS AND INTERESTS Research: Economic Theory, Decision Theory, Psychology and Economics, Experimental Economics Teaching: Core Micro (G), Decision Theory (G), Psychology and Economics (U)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS National Science Foundation Grant, 2016-19 Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 National Science Foundation Grant, 2008-2010 (with Attila Ambrus) Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching in Economics, Boston University, 2008 Graduate Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2000-2004 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2004 University of London Prize for Academic Achievement, 1997 PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS Commitment and Self-Control Journal of Economic Theory 135(1), July 2007, p 1-34 (lead article) Non-Bayesian Updating: A Theoretical Framework (with L. Epstein and A. Sandroni) Theoretical Economics 3(2), July 2008, p 193-229 Decreasing Impatience and the Magnitude Effect Jointly Contradict Exponential Discounting Journal of Economic Theory 144(2), March 2009, p869-875 Hyperbolic Discounting and the Standard Model: Eliciting Discount Functions Journal of Economic Theory 144(5), September 2009, p2077-2083 Uphill Self-Control (with N. Takeoka) Theoretical Economics 5(2), May 2010, p127-158. Non-Bayesian Learning (with L. Epstein and A. Sandroni) B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances) 10(1), Jan 2010 Temptation and Revealed Preference Econometrica 79(2), Mar 2011, p601-644 Intertemporal Choice and the Magnitude Effect Games and Economic Behavior 72(1), May 2011, p255-270.
Removed Preference Journal of Economic Theory 148(4), July 2013, p1463-1486. Menu-Dependent Self-Control (with N. Takeoka) Journal of Mathematical Economics 61, Dec 2015, p1-20. Choice and Weak Resolve (with I. Kopylov) Economic Theory 66(1), July 2018, p1-19. Temptation and Guilt (with L. Ren) Delay Functions as the Foundations of Time Preference: Testing for Separable Discounted Utility (with K. Ericson) Compensated Discount Functions (with A. Ambrus, T. Asgeirdottir and L. Sandor) Optimal Discounting (with N. Takeoka) Intuitive Beliefs Foundations for Intuitive Beliefs The Formation of Intuitive Beliefs INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2018-19: Duke University 2017-18: Brown University, UC-Davis, UCLA, NYU-AD, Erasmus University (Rotterdam), University of Manchester, Decisions: Theory, Experiments and Applications Conference (Institut Henri Poincare, Paris), Risk Uncertainty and Decisions Conference (Heidelberg University), Manchester Economic Theory Workshop (University of Manchester), Hitotsubashi Summer Workshop (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)(invited), Time Uncertainties and Strategies IV Conference (Paris School of Economics)(invited) 2016-17: U of Arizona, U of Almeria (Spain), Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference (Queen Mary U of London), SAET Conference (Faro, Portugal) (invited) 2015-16: Yokohama National University Japan, HEC Paris, Queen Mary University of London, Caltech, UC San Diego, Risk Uncertainty and Decisions Conference (Paris Dauphine University), SAET Conference (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro) (invited), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Kyoto University) 2014-15: Cornell, London School of Economics, U of Glasgow 2013-14: Columbia, Rochester 2012-13: MIT
2011-12: Warwick, U of St Andrews 2010-11: UC-San Diego, UC-Irvine, Caltech, UC-Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown Experimental and Economic Theory Conference (Brown University) (invited) 2009-10: NYU, University of Michigan, Harvard-MIT, Canadian Economic Theory Conference (McGill University), European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee, Switzerland) (invited) 2008-9: Arizona State University, U. of Munich, U. of Bayreuth, U. of Zurich, Canadian Economic Theory Conference (University of Toronto), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Boston University), Risk, Uncertainty and Decisions Conference (Duke University) 2007-8: UC-Davis, Oxford, UCL, Queen Mary U of London, Brown University, Public Economic Theory Conference (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) (invited), Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (U. of Andes, Colombia) (invited), North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (New Orleans LA), Canadian Economic Theory Conference (Simon Fraser University) 2006-7: Boston College, Penn State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Canadian Economic Theory Conference (U Montreal) 2005-6: Princeton University, Canadian Economic Theory Conference (U Toronto), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (U Minnesota) 2004-5: Yale University, University of Iowa, Boston University 2003-4: Canadian Economic Theory Conference (McGill University), Risk, Uncertainty and Decisions Conference (Northwestern University), Midwest Economic Theory Meeting (Washington University, St. Louis). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Refereeing for American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, CESifo Economic Studies, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economic Theory, Economica, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Logic Language and Information, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences, Mathematics of Operations Research, Metroeconomica, Quantitative Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Review of Economic Studies, Social Choice and Welfare, Theoretical Economics, Theoretical Economics Letters, Theory and Decision Refereeing for National Science Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council Econometric Society World Congress, committee member (2015) Risk Uncertainty and Decisions conference, committee member (2019) DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Micro Theory Workshop organizer (2017s,2019s) Lecturer Promotion Committee, member (2018, 2019) 2nd yr PhD Advisor (2018, 2019) PhD Recruitiment Committee, chair (2018, 2019) PhD Admissions Committee, chair (2015, 2016, 2017), member (2011, 2014) Micro Theory Seminar, co-organizer (2006s, 2009f, 2014f, 2016s/f, 2017s/f) Slater Chair Search Commitee, member (2012), chair (2013) Junior Faculty Recruiting, chair (2011), member (2005- ) Trustee Scholars Selection Committee, member (2012) Social Sciences Curriculum Committee, member (2007-2010) PHD THESIS SUPERVISION (*main advisor) Sean Horan 2011, Univerite du Quebec Andrew Ellis 2013, London School of Economics Mengxi Zhang 2015, University of Technology Sydney (Post-Doc) Benjamin Ogden 2016, University of Texas A&M, political science dept Mirko Fillbrunn* 2016, MGH Harvard Medical School (post-doc) Kevin Cooke* 2017, Analysis Group Nick Saponara* 2017, Deloitte Buqu Gao 2017, Nankai University, School of Finance, China Yi-Hsuan Lin 2018 Chi Zhang* 2019
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