b. 1970
Marciano Siniscalchi is an Italian-American economist and game theorist, currently Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on decision theory, epistemic game theory, and the foundations of dynamic games, particularly questions about rationality, belief revision, and backward induction.
Developed influential work on epistemic foundations of extensive-form games and backward induction
Contributed to the theory of conditional probability systems and belief revision in dynamic games
Clarified the distinction between Aumann's and Stalnaker's models of rationality in games
Advanced axiomatic foundations of decision theory under ambiguity
Professor of Economics at Northwestern University