Luciano Pomatto
Professor of Economics
B.A., Universita di Torino, 2007; M.A., 2009; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2015. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2016-22; Professor, 2022-.
Profile
Luciano Pomatto's research is focused on understanding economic interactions in situations of uncertainty. He studies methods for making decisions when the odds are unknown, both in terms of their quantitative properties as well as their conceptual implications. He also investigates how decisions are affected by different sources of risk. His published work has appeared in the American Economic Review,
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Research Summary
Microeconomic Theory; Economics of Risk and Uncertainty; Theories of Information; Strategic Forecasting; Bayesian and Interactive Epistemology
Featured News
A Toast to the 2022 Brass Division Award Winners
December 14, 2022
At the HSS holiday gathering on December 6, Tracy Dennison, Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science History and Ronald and Maxine Linde Leadership Chair of the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, announced the recipients of the 2022 Brass Division Awards (BDA).
Should You Take the Bet?
January 16, 2020
When somebody's overall uncertainty in life is large enough, then the risk of a smaller gamble becomes less significant.
The Rich Language of Probability: A Conversation with Luciano Pomatto
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February 03, 2017
Assistant Professor Luciano Pomatto explains how good predictions and bad predictions can often be confused for one another.
Selected Publications
- From Blackwell Dominance in Large Samples to Rényi Divergences and Back Again
with Xiaosheng Mu, Philipp Strack, and Omer Tamuz, Econometrica, 2021. - Testable Forecasts
Theoretical Economics, 2021. - Aggregate Risk and the Pareto Principle
with Nabil Al-Najjar, Journal of Economic Theory, 2020. - Stochastic Dominance under Independent Noise
with Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz, Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - An Abstract Law of Large Numbers
with Nabil Al-Najjar, Sankhya, Series A, 2020. - An Axiomatic Theory of Inductive Inference
with Alvaro Sandroni, Philosophy of Science, 2018. - Choice under Aggregate Risk
with Nabil Al-Najjar, Theory and Decision, 2016. - Claim Validation
with Nabil Al-Najjar and Alvaro Sandroni, American Economic Review, 2014. - Merging and Testing Opinions
with Nabil Al-Najjar and Alvaro Sandroni, Annals of Statistics, 2014.
For a list of Professor Pomatto's working papers, please visit his research website.