Emerson Melo

Indiana University Bloomington

Dept of Economics

100 South Indiana Ave.

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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Discrete Choice and Rational Inattention: A General Equivalence Result

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2021
University of Copenhagen, Indiana University Bloomington, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (ENS) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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rational inattention; discrete choice models; random utility; convex analysis; generalized entropy; Bregman Information

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On the Uniqueness of Quantal Response Equilibria and Its Application to Network Games

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2021
Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington
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Citation 1

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QRE, Discrete choice, Logit-QRE, Network games, Variational Inequalities

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Testing the Quantal Response Hypothesis

International Economic Review, Volume 60, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 53-74
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2019
Emerson Melo, Kirill Pogorelskiy and Matthew Shum
Indiana University Bloomington, University of Warwick - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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quantal response equilibrium, behavioral game theory, cyclic monotonicity, moment inequalities, experimental economics

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Quality Choice in Information-Intensive Goods: The Significance of Education and Income

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022
The University of Akron - Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington and University of Wyoming - College of Business - Department of Economics and Finance
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Citation 1

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Information Processing, Rational Inattention, Heterogenous Consumers, Organic Milk

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Wishful Thinking is Risky Thinking

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Jarrod Burgh and Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Bloomington
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Wishful thinking, cognitive dissonance, risk, optimism.

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Some Remarks on CCP-based Estimators of Dynamic Models

Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2021
University of Copenhagen, Indiana University Bloomington, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of Copenhagen
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dynamic discrete choice, random utility, linear programming, convex analysis, convex optimization

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A recursive logit model with choice aversion and its application to transportation networks

Transportation Research Part B
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2021
Austin Knies, Jorge Lorca and Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington, Central Bank of Chile and Indiana University Bloomington
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choice aversion, recursive logit, IIA, directed networks, transportation networks

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Learning in Random Utility Models Via Online Decision Problems

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2022
Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington
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Random utility models, Multinomial Logit Model, Generalized Nested Logit model, GEV class, Online optimization, Online learning, Hannan consistency, No-regret learning, Recency bias, Prediction markets.

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Bounding Causal Effects in Ecological Inference Problems

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Dec 2015
Universidad Diego Portales - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Indiana University Bloomington, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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Censored Beliefs and Wishful Thinking

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Jarrod Burgh and Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Bloomington
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wishful thinking, risk, optimism, quantile maximization, preference for skewness

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Censored Beliefs and Wishful Thinking

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 May 2024
Emerson Melo and Jarrod Burgh
Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University
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wishful thinking, risk, optimism, quantile maximization, preference forskewness

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Choice Aversion in Directed Networks

Posted: 20 May 2020 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2021
Jorge Lorca and Emerson Melo
Central Bank of Chile and Indiana University Bloomington

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choice aversion, discrete choice models, directed networks

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Approximation Notions in Concave Games

Posted: 28 Oct 2019
Emerson Melo
Indiana University Bloomington

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ε-Nash Equilibrium, $\hatε-approximate solution, δ-near Nash Equilibrium, VI, Lipschitz games, Network games.