S. Nageeb Ali



I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego

Email: snali[at]ucsd.edu  

Office: (858) 534-8250, ECON 214

 

Mailing Address:

9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0508,

La Jolla, CA 92093-0508

Fax: (858) 534-7040

 

Curriculum Vitae 

Publications

 
Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives, with Charles Lin, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Integrating the ethical voter model with social signaling generates a simple framework that can be useful to understand turnout behavior and candidate competition.

 [Supplementary Appendix]

 

Herding with Collective Preferences, with Navin Kartik, Economic Theory, November 2012.

Do individuals herd when there are payoff interdependencies, as in a sequential election?

A previous version was peer reviewed by NAJ Economics 12:4.

[Working Paper] [Bibtex]

 
Learning Self-Control, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011.

Would a decisionmaker learn about his temptations from his experience?

[Working Paper] [Presentation Slides] [Bibtex]

 
Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Jacob Goeree, Navin Kartik, and Thomas Palfrey, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2008.

Do standing committees aggregate information better than ad hoc committees?

[Bibtex]

 
Waiting to Settle: Multilateral Bargaining with Subjective Biases, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2006.

When does optimism about bargaining power delay agreement?

[Working Paper] [Bibtex]

 
Work in Progress
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies, with David Miller, November 2012.

Which networks support the greatest cooperation?

Ostracism, with David Miller.

Do individuals have an incentive to reveal when others deviate?

Image Versus Information, with Roland Benabou.
Information Aggregation in Search Committees, with Aislinn Bohren.
Power and Predictability in Legislative Bargaining, with B. Douglas Bernheim and Xiaochen Fan.
Reputation in Tournaments, with Alex Wolitzky.
Current Teaching
ECON 281: Models in Behavioral Economics