JAWWAD NOOR
Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road,
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-4436
http://people.bu.edu/jnoor
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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· Employment:
!!!!! Department of Economics, Boston University
Associate Professor, 2011 - present
Assistant Professor, 2005 – 2011
· Visiting Positions:
Visiting Professor, 2019-20
Cowles Foundation and Econ Dept, Yale University
Hallsworth Visiting Professor, June 2018
Econ Dept, University of Manchester
Visiting Professor, 2012-13
Econ Dept, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EDUCATION
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· 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
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· 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
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· Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review: Micro 2019-2020
· 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
· Summer Research Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2004
· Graduate Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2000-2004
· University of London Prize for Academic Achievement, 1997
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
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· 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) (R&R at Games and Economic Behavior)
· 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), Econometrica 90(2), Mar 2022, p585-623.
· Intuitive Priors
· Constrained Optimal Discounting (with N. Takeoka)
· An Axiomatic Approach to the Law of Small Numbers (with Fernando Payro)
INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(* scheduled)
· 2021-2022: UPenn, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow University, Durham University
· 2020-2021: Princeton University (Behavioral Economics seminar), UC-Riverside,
Northwestern University (CS-Econ Workshop), Decisions: Theory, Experiments and
Applications conference, Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting.
· 2019-2020: Yale, Paris School of Economics, University of Paris 2, NYU-Abu Dhabi,
NYU (postponed), Academia Sinica Taiwan (postponed) National University of
Singapore (postponed), Singapore Management University Economic Theory
Workshop (invited)(postponed), Philosophy of the Social Sciences Conference
(Hitotsubashi Uni) (invited)(postponed), Time Uncertainties and Strategies IV
Conference (Paris School of Economics)(invited)
· 2018-19: Duke University, Hong Kong University, Bounded Rationality in Choice
conference (Aarhus, Denmark), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Xiamen,
China)(invited).
· 2017-18: Brown University, UC-Davis, UCLA, NYU-AD, Erasmus University,
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, 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, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 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
Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty,
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences,
Mathematics and Financial Economics, 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, Social Research Council,
Luxembourg National Research Fund
· Econometric Society World Congress, committee member (2015)
· Risk Uncertainty and Decisions conference, committee member (2019, 2022)
DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
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· CAS Faculty Council (2021-22, 2022-23)
· Undergraduate Instruction Committee (2020)
· Lecturer Promotion Committee, member (2018, 2019)
· 2nd yr PhD Advisor (2018, 2019)
· PhD Recruitiment Committee, chair (2018, 2019, 2020), member (2021,2022)
· PhD Admissions Committee, chair (2015, 2016, 2017), member (2011, 2014)
· Micro Theory Seminar, co-organizer (2006s, 2009f, 2014f, 2016s/f, 2017s/f, 2019s,
2021s,2022s)
· 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, Universite 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, Dallas
·!!!!!!Nick Saponara* 2017, Deloitte, Chicago
·!! !!Buqu Gao 2017, Nankai University, School of Finance, China
·!!!!!!Yi-Hsuan Lin 2018, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
·!!!!!!Chi Zhang* 2018, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
·!!!!!!Wendy Xu 2020, Chinese University of Hong Kong (post-doc)
·!!!!!!Fernando Payro 2021, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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! Last updated: 04/22
