Simon Grant

Simon Grant is Professor and John C. Harsanyi Chair of Economics at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University, with over 70 publications and an h-index of 17. His work bridges theoretical economics and practical applications in strategic decision-making.

Education:

• B.Ec (Hons) and B.Sc from Australian National University (1985)
• PhD from Harvard University (1991)

Research Focus: Grant pioneers theories of rational decision under uncertainty and unawareness, developing non-expected utility frameworks for games, bargaining, and social choice. His work examines boundedly rational agents in strategic economic settings, with recent emphasis on learning dynamics under limited awareness and ambiguity in correlated equilibria. Key contributions appear in Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Publication Trends: Recent output (2021-2025) reveals intensified focus on unawareness modeling, Bayesian updating under ambiguity, and risk attitude formalization, reflecting growing interdisciplinary connections between decision theory and machine learning.

Scientific Recognition:

• Elected Fellow of The Econometric Society
• Elected Fellow of The Australian Academy of Social Sciences
• Elected Fellow of The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

Research Leadership: Directed two major ARC-funded projects: To Reveal or not to reveal: an investigation into secret reserve prices in auctions (2000-2003) with Menezes, Kajii, and Monteiro; and Evaluating risk with undiversifiable background risk (1998-2000) with Quiggin. Current work explores unawareness in learning processes and ambiguity in economic equilibria.

Collaborative Network: Maintains active international collaborations evidenced by co-authorship patterns across North American, European, and Australian institutions.