SHIRI ALON

Department of Economics Email: shiri.alon-eron@biu.ac.il

Bar Ilan University

Academic positions

2015- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University

(currently visiting the Department of Economics in University of Washington)

2013-2015 Instructor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University

2006-2012 Teaching assistant, Department of Statistics and OR, Tel-Aviv University

Research interests
Decision Theory, Social Choice, Game Theory.

Education
Tel Aviv University, PhD in Probability and Statistics, 2012
Under the supervision of Professor David Schmeidler

Tel Aviv University, MSc in Probability and Statistics, 2006 (summa cum laude)
Under the supervision of Professor Isaac Meilijson

Tel Aviv University, BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2000 (magna cum laude)

Publications
Eliciting a cardinal utility through a weak tradeoff consistency requirement, Mathematics
of Operations Research 39 (2014), 290-300

Purely subjective maxmin expected utility, joint with David Schmeidler, Journal of Economic
Theory 152 (2014), 382-412

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Subjective multi-prior probability, joint with Ehud Lehrer, Journal of Economic Theory
151 (2014), 476-492

The logic of Knightian games, joint with Aviad Heifetz, Economic Theory Bulletin 2 (2014),
161-182

Worst-Case Expected Utility, Journal of Mathematical Economics 60 (2015), 43-48

Utilitarian preferences with multiple priors, joint with Gabi Gayer, Econometrica 84 (2016),
1181-1201

Working papers
Competitive equilibrium as an ordinal bargaining solution: an axiomatic approach, joint
with Ehud Lehrer

Data-based comparison of likelihoods with incompleteness, joint with Gabi Gayer

Maxmin Expected Utility as resulting from information on others’ preferences, joint with
Gabi Gayer

Subjective Utilitarianism: Individual decisions in a social context, joint with Ehud Lehrer

Work in progress
A comment on the axiomatics of the Maxmin Expected Utility model, joint with David
Schmeidler

Cardinality through compromise, joint with Ehud Lehrer

Conformism and similarity, joint with Gabi Gayer

Conference presentations
RUD, Workshop on Risk, Utility and Decision, Oxford UK, 2008

D-TEA Workshop, HEC Paris, 2014

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CETC, the Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, 2017

Teaching experience
Instructor, Probability for mathematicians, and Probability for double major (statistics
with a second major from another faculty), 2005 - 2011

Lecturer, Introduction to probability and statistics: Physics students, 2010; Electrical

engineering students, 2011; Mechanical engineering students, 2012

Lecturer, Introduction to statistics (a and b) and Mathematics for economists (a and b),
2013-2015

Awards
The school of mathematical sciences award for teaching assistants, 2004

The Yaakov Blecher award for excellence in MSc studies, 2005

Non academic work experience

Software Tester, Nice Technologies, 1997-1998

Software Developer, Chromatis Networks, 1998-2001

Software Developer, Check Point Software, 2001-2002