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Alexander Zimper

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Terminal Degree:2003 Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre; Universität Mannheim (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Department of Economics
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
University of Pretoria

Pretoria, South Africa
http://www.up.ac.za/economics
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Working papers

  1. Ludwig, Alexander & Groneck, Max & Zimper, Alexander, 2021. "Who Saves More, the Naive or the Sophisticated Agent?," CEPR Discussion Papers 16412, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Ludwig, Alexander & Grevenbrock, Nils & Groneck, Max & Zimper, Alexander, 2020. "Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs," CEPR Discussion Papers 14539, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Neryvia Pillay Bell, 2020. "Monetary policy and inequality," Working Papers 208, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  4. Alexander Zimper & Hirbod Assa, 2019. "Preferences Over Rich Sets of Random Variables: Semicontinuity in Measure versus Convexity," Working Papers 201940, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  5. Esti Kemp & Greg Farrell, 2018. "Measuring the Financial Cycle in South Africa," Working Papers 161, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  6. Hirbod Assa & Alexander Zimper, 2017. "Preferences Over all Random Variables: Incompatibility of Convexity and Continuity," Working Papers 201714, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  7. Alex Bara & Gift Mugano & Pierre Le Roux, 2017. "Financial Development and Economic Growth in SADC: Cross Country Spatial Spill-Over Effects," Working Papers 97, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  8. Alexander Zimper, 2017. "Rationalizable Information Equilibria," Working Papers 201745, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  9. Jones O. Mensah & Paul Alagidede, 2017. "How are Africa’s emerging stock markets related to advanced markets? Evidence from copulas," Working Papers 104, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  10. Carolyn Chisadza & Manoel Bittencourt, 2016. "The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers 92, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  11. Bernard N. Iyke & Sin-Yu Ho, 2016. "On the causal links between the stock market and the economy of Hong Kong," Working Papers 74, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  12. Anna Orthofer, 2016. "Piketty’s Capital and Private Wealth in South Africa," Working Papers 58, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  13. Johannes W. Fedderke & Yang Liu, 2015. "Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanations," Working Papers 47, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  14. Nicholas Spearman, 2015. "The role of banks in money creation," Working Papers 32, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  15. Monique Reid & Stan Du Plessis, 2015. "Loud and Clear: Can we hear when the SARB speaks?," Working Papers 40, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  16. Haakon Kavli & Nicola Viegi, 2015. "Portfolio Flows in a two-country RBC model with financial intermediaries," Working Papers 45, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  17. Grevenbrock, Nils & Groneck, Max & Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2015. "Biased Survival Beliefs, Psychological and Cognitive Explanations, and the Demand for Life Insurances," VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy 113203, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  18. Alexander Zimper & Wei Ma, 2015. "Bayesian Learning with Multiple Priors and Non-Vanishing Ambiguity," Working Papers 201535, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  19. Nicky Nicholls & Alexander Zimper, 2014. "Subjective Life Expectancy," Working Papers 201410, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  20. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "On the Welfare Equivalence of Asset Markets and Banking in Diamond Dybvig Economies," Working Papers 201356, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  21. Groneck, Max & Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2013. "Ambiguous Survival Beliefs and Hyperbolic Discounting in a Life-Cycle Model," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79878, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  22. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria," Working Papers 201379, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  23. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2013. "Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle," Working Papers 201366, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  24. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "Bank Deposit Contracts Versus Financial Market Participation in Emerging Economies," Working Papers 201334, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  25. Max Groneck & Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2013. "A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs," Working Paper Series in Economics 63, University of Cologne, Department of Economics, revised 22 Nov 2013.
  26. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "Speculative Trade Equilibria with Incorrect Price Anticipations," Working Papers 201335, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  27. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation," Working Papers 201305, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  28. Nicky Nicholls & Aylit Romm & Alexander Zimper, 2013. "The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle," Working Papers 201364, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  29. Alexander Zimper & Alexander Ludwig & Max Groneck, 2012. "A Life-Cycle Consumption Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs," 2012 Meeting Papers 693, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  30. Alexander Zimper, 2012. "The emergence of "fifty-fifty" probability judgements in a conditional Savage world," Working Papers 201221, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  31. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2012. "A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news," Working Papers 201223, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  32. Schmidt, Ulrich & Zimper, Alexander, 2011. "Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox," Kiel Working Papers 1724, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
  33. Schmidt, Ulrich & Zimper, Alexander, 2011. "Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox," Kiel Working Papers 1724, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
  34. Alexander Zimper, 2011. "Do Bayesians learn their way out of ambiguity?," Working Papers 240, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  35. Eric Danan & Ani Guerdjikovaz & Alexander Zimper, 2009. "Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment," THEMA Working Papers 2009-04, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
  36. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2008. "A Parsimonious Choquet Model of Subjective Life Expectancy," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2008-20, Center for Retirement Research, revised Dec 2008.
  37. Alexander Zimper, 2008. "Revisiting independence and stochastic dominance for compound lotteries," Working Papers 097, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  38. Alexander Zimper, 2008. "Asset pricing in a Lucas ‘fruit-tree’ economy with non-additive beliefs," Working Papers 092, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  39. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2007. "A Parsimonious Model of Subjective Life Expectancy," MEA discussion paper series 07154, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
  40. Alexander Zimper & Alexander Ludwig, 2007. "Attitude polarization," MEA discussion paper series 07155, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
  41. Alexander Zimper, 2007. "Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever," Working Papers 058, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  42. Alexander Zimper, 2006. "An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes," Working Papers 045, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  43. Guerdjikova, Ani & Zimper, Alexander, 2006. "Flexibility of Choice versus Reduction of Ambiguity," Working Papers 06-14, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics.
  44. Alexander Zimper, 2006. "A fixed point characterization of the dominancesolvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes," Working Papers 032, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  45. Zimper, Alexander, 2005. "Equivalence between best responses and undominated," Papers 05-08, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  46. Zimper, Alexander, 2004. "On the existence of strategic solutions for games with security- and potential level players," Papers 04-04, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  47. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2004. "Rational Expectations and Ambiguity: A Comment on Abel," MEA discussion paper series 04066, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
  48. Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2004. "Rational expectations and ambiguity : a comment on Abel (2002)," Papers 04-66, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  49. Zimper, Alexander, 2004. "A note on the equivalence of rationalizability concepts in generalized nice games," Papers 04-03, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  50. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2004. "Investment Behavior under Ambiguity: The Case of Pessimistic Decision Makers," MEA discussion paper series 04060, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
  51. Zimper, Alexander, 2004. "Dominance-solvable lattice games," Papers 04-18, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  52. Zimper, Alexander, 2003. "Uniqueness Conditions for Point-Rationalizable," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 03-28, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim;Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim.
  53. Schmidt, Ulrich & Zimper, Alexander, 2003. "Security and potential level preferences with thresholds," Papers 03-29, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  54. Zimper, Alexander, 2003. "Uniqueness conditions for point-rationalizable solutions of games with metrizable strategy sets," Papers 03-28, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
  55. Schmidt, Ulrich & Zimper, Alexander, 2003. "Security And Potential Level Preferences With," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 03-29, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim;Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim.

Articles

  1. Groneck, Max & Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2024. "Who saves more, the naive or the sophisticated agent?," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 219(C).
  2. Zimper, Alexander, 2023. "Unrealized arbitrage opportunities in naive equilibria with non-Bayesian belief processes," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 27-41.
  3. Alexander Zimper, 2023. "Belief aggregation for representative agent models," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 19(2), pages 309-342, June.
  4. Zimper Alexander & Molefinyane Mpoifeng, 2022. "When is Knowledge Acquisition Socially Beneficial in the Laffont–Tirole Regulatory Framework?," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 22(1), pages 233-266, January.
  5. Eric Picard & Alexander Zimper, 2022. "Moving from a bad to a good pricing regime: The South African private health care market," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 90(2), pages 260-276, June.
  6. Alexander Zimper & Mpoifeng Molefinyane, 2021. "Bargaining over loan contracts with signaling," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 23(5), pages 958-984, October.
  7. Nils Grevenbrock & Max Groneck & Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2021. "Cognition, Optimism, And The Formation Of Age‐Dependent Survival Beliefs," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 62(2), pages 887-918, May.
  8. Alexander Zimper & Nicky Nicholls, 2020. "Choosing the agent's group identity in a trust game with delegated decision making," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 22(1), pages 220-244, February.
  9. Assa, Hirbod & Zimper, Alexander, 2018. "Preferences over all random variables: Incompatibility of convexity and continuity," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 71-83.
  10. Alexander Zimper & Wei Ma, 2017. "Bayesian learning with multiple priors and nonvanishing ambiguity," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 64(3), pages 409-447, October.
  11. Groneck, Max & Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2016. "A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 137-180.
  12. Zimper, Alexander, 2016. "Banks versus markets. A response to Kucinskas," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 174-176.
  13. Nicky Nicholls & Aylit Romm & Alexander Zimper, 2015. "Erratum to: The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 50(2), pages 117-117, April.
  14. Nicky Nicholls & Aylit Romm & Alexander Zimper, 2015. "The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 50(2), pages 97-115, April.
  15. Alexander Zimper, 2015. "Bank-Deposit Contracts Versus Financial-Market Participation in Emerging Economies," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(3), pages 525-536, May.
  16. Zimper, Alexander, 2014. "On the impossibility of insider trade in rational expectations equilibria," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 109-118.
  17. Alexander Zimper, 2014. "The minimal confidence levels of Basel capital regulation," Journal of Banking Regulation, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 15(2), pages 129-143, April.
  18. Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2014. "Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 79-97.
  19. Zimper, Alexander, 2013. "On the welfare equivalence of asset markets and banking in Diamond Dybvig economies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 121(3), pages 356-359.
  20. Alexander Zimper, 2013. "Optimal Liquidity Provision Through a Demand Deposit Scheme: The Jacklin Critique Revisited," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 14(1), pages 89-107, February.
  21. Alexander Ludwig & Alexander Zimper, 2013. "A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 625-665, November.
  22. A. Ludwig & A. Zimper, 2013. "A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 75(4), pages 519-541, October.
  23. Eric Danan & Ani Guerdjikova & Alexander Zimper, 2012. "Indecisiveness aversion and preference for commitment," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 72(1), pages 1-13, January.
  24. Shaheen Seedat & Alexander Zimper, 2012. "Existence of speculative bubbles when time-horizons are finite," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(1), pages 251-259.
  25. Zimper, Alexander, 2012. "Asset pricing in a Lucas fruit-tree economy with the best and worst in mind," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 36(4), pages 610-628.
  26. Zimper, Alexander & Hassan, Shakill, 2012. "Can industry regulators learn collusion structures from information-efficient asset markets?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 116(1), pages 1-4.
  27. Alexander Zimper, 2011. "Do Bayesians Learn Their Way Out of Ambiguity?," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 8(4), pages 269-285, December.
  28. Alexander Zimper, 2011. "Re-examining the law of iterated expectations for Choquet decision makers," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 71(4), pages 669-677, October.
  29. Alexander Zimper, 2010. "Canonical interpretation of propositions as events," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 6(3), pages 327-339, September.
  30. Zimper, Alexander, 2009. "An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 58(3), pages 290-309, November.
  31. Alexander Zimper & Alexander Ludwig, 2009. "On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 181-212, October.
  32. Zimper, Alexander, 2009. "Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 71(2), pages 283-299, August.
  33. Ani Guerdjikova & Alexander Zimper, 2008. "Flexibility of choice versus reduction of ambiguity," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 30(3), pages 507-526, April.
  34. Zimper Alexander, 2008. "Revisiting Independence and Stochastic Dominance for Compound Lotteries," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-11, April.
  35. Alexander Zimper, 2007. "A fixed point characterization of the dominance-solvability of lattice games with strategic substitutes," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 36(1), pages 107-117, September.
  36. Alexander Zimper, 2007. "Strategic games with security and potential level players," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 63(1), pages 53-78, August.
  37. Zimper Alexander, 2006. "Assessing the Likelihood of Panic-Based Bank Runs," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 6(1), pages 1-21, December.
  38. Alexander Zimper, 2006. "A Note On The Equivalence Of Rationalizability Concepts In Generalized Nice Games," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 8(04), pages 669-674.
  39. Ludwig, Alexander & Zimper, Alexander, 2006. "Investment behavior under ambiguity: The case of pessimistic decision makers," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 52(2), pages 111-130, September.
  40. Alexander Zimper & Alexander Ludwig, 2006. "Rational expectations and ambiguity: A comment on Abel (2002)," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 4(2), pages 1-15.
  41. Zimper, Alexander, 2006. "Uniqueness conditions for strongly point-rationalizable solutions to games with metrizable strategy sets," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(6), pages 729-751, September.
  42. Alexander Zimper, 2005. "Equivalence between best responses and undominated strategies: a generalization from finite to compact strategy sets," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 3(7), pages 1-6.

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  1. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (20) 2006-05-27 2008-01-26 2009-06-17 2011-08-09 2011-10-01 2012-06-25 2012-07-14 2013-06-24 2013-07-28 2013-09-06 2013-11-16 2013-11-16 2014-12-08 2015-06-13 2017-03-12 2017-04-09 2017-06-18 2018-03-05 2018-05-07 2019-06-10. Author is listed
  2. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (12) 2013-05-22 2013-06-24 2014-02-02 2014-03-22 2014-12-08 2016-02-17 2017-04-09 2018-03-05 2018-05-07 2018-11-19 2020-04-13 2020-06-22. Author is listed
  3. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (11) 2011-10-01 2012-06-25 2013-07-20 2013-07-28 2013-09-06 2014-01-17 2014-02-02 2014-12-08 2015-06-13 2017-03-12 2017-06-18. Author is listed
  4. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (7) 2012-07-14 2014-03-22 2018-03-05 2018-05-07 2018-11-19 2020-04-13 2020-06-22. Author is listed
  5. NEP-BAN: Banking (3) 2013-02-03 2013-07-20 2013-09-28
  6. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (3) 2008-01-26 2018-03-05 2020-04-13
  7. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (3) 2011-10-01 2013-07-20 2013-09-28
  8. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (3) 2008-01-26 2013-06-24 2016-02-17
  9. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (3) 2014-02-02 2014-12-08 2017-04-09
  10. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2013-05-22 2013-06-24
  11. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (2) 2011-08-09 2020-06-22
  12. NEP-RMG: Risk Management (2) 2013-02-03 2019-06-10
  13. NEP-ACC: Accounting and Auditing (1) 2013-02-03
  14. NEP-AFR: Africa (1) 2013-07-20
  15. NEP-CBA: Central Banking (1) 2013-02-03
  16. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (1) 2018-03-05
  17. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2014-02-02
  18. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (1) 2013-07-20
  19. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (1) 2011-08-09
  20. NEP-FMK: Financial Markets (1) 2012-07-14
  21. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2008-01-26
  22. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2011-08-09
  23. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2018-03-05

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