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About me

I have just finished my PhD at Erasmus School of Economics in behavioral decision theory and experimental economics. I have a visiting position at department of econometrics. My Behavioral Economics group is here.

Right now I am in search of further, mostly research, opportunities.

Interests

Computational statistics and data analysis with primary focus on Bayesian hierarchical modeling. Foundations of statistics and extensions of Bayesian inference. Behavioral modeling under risk and uncertainty. Behavioral finance. Programming paradigms.

I am a happy user of Emacs, which I use for 90% of my work – code and LaTeX, reading mail and news, organizer and many other things.

In Progress

What is the reference point in prospect theory? Aurélien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt & Vitalie Spinu

Working Papers

From Simple to Complex: a general method for extending behavioral foundations to infinitely many outcomes Vitalie Spinu (2012)
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Average Utility: A Preference Foundation Kothiyal Amit, Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker (2011)
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Discounted Utility and Present Value -- A Close Relation Han Bleichrodt , Umut Keskin, Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker
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Published Papers

An Experimental Test of Prospect Theory for Predicting Choice under Ambiguity Kothiyal Amit, Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker (2012)
Forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty [PDF] [web-appendix]
Expected Utility without Continuity: A Comment on Delbaen, Drapeau, and Kupper (2012) Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker (2012)
Journal of Mathematical Economics Volume 49, Issue 1, 28–30. [PDF]
Comonotonic Proper Scoring Rules to Measure Ambiguity and Subjective Beliefs Kothiyal Amit, Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker (2011)
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 17, 101-113.
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Prospect Theory for Continuous Distributions: A Preference Foundation Kothiyal Amit, Vitalie Spinu & Peter P. Wakker (2011)
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 42, 195-210.
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Code

I am a core developer of the Emacs Speaks Statistics – a rich IDE for statistical computing languages.
protoClasses: a contextual prototype programming paradigm for R. It takes the ideas of prototype object orientation and enriches them with contexts and forms. It's the first programming paradigm in R to allow inheritance of the code blocks directly.
pbm: Prototype Bayesian Modeling - an experimental package, based on protoClasses, which implements a micro language for developing Bayesian models in R. It aims to be as general as BUGS, but much faster, vectorized and fully integrated with R.
betfairly is an R API to access the betting site betfair.
ac-math is an auto-completion source for LaTeX and Unicode math symbols.
zotelo is an interface to zotero reference management tool.
polymode is a multi-mode and literate programming interface for emacs.

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