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Massimiliano Amarante

Professeur agrégé

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de sciences économiques

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C-6039

514 343-2395

massimiliano.amarante@umontreal.ca

Profile

Research expertise

Professor Massimiliano Amarante holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main fields of research are decision theory under uncertainty, and game theory (co-operative and non-co-operative). He is particularly interested in the rational-choice foundations of non-additive theories and in neo-Bayesian statistics.

Affiliations and responsabilities

Projects

Research projects

2024 - 2028

Aggregators for rich datasets: from foundations to applications

Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir
2020 - 2023

Subvention de déphasage_Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ)

Lead researcher : Emanuela Cardia , Benoit Perron
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques - Subvention de déphasage
2014 - 2021

CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE QUANTITATIVE (CIREQ)

Lead researcher : Emanuela Cardia , Benoit Perron
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques
2011 - 2015

RATIONAL-CHOICE FOUNDATION OF NON-EXPECTED UTILITY

Lead researcher : Massimiliano Amarante
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention ordinaire de recherche
2008 - 2015

CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE QUANTITATIVE (CIREQ)

Lead researcher : Emanuela Cardia
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques
2011 - 2013

RATIONAL-CHOICE FOUNDATION OF NON-EXPECTED UTILITY

Lead researcher : Massimiliano Amarante

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • “Information and Ambiguity: toward a foundation of non-Expected Utility”, conditionally accepted Mathematics of Operations Research
  • “Contracting on ambiguous prospects”  (with M. Ghossoub and E. Phelps), forthcoming Economic Journal.
  • “Analogy in Decision Making”, , Mathematics of Operations Research 40, 2015.
  • “The Bargaining set of a large game”  (with L. Montrucchio), Economic Theory 43, 2010.
  • “Foundations of Neo-Bayesian Statistics”Journal of Economic Theory 144, 2009.
  • “Ambiguous Events and Maxmin Expected Utility”  (with E. Filiz), Journal of Economic Theory 134, 2007.
  • “Recursive Structure and Equilibria for Games with Private Monitoring”, Economic Theory 22, 2003.

Disciplines

  • Economy

Areas of expertise

  • Game theory
  • Decision theory