When economists look at utility maximizing, they do so assuming that the individual cares only about their own utility, and not about the bigger world in general. I propose that research is often not ...

We consider a utility-maximization problem in a general semimartingale financial model, subject to constraints on the number of shares held in each risky asset. These constraints are modeled by ...

Lundy, Taylor, Alexander Wei, Hu Fu, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kevin Leyton-Brown. "Allocation for Social Good: Auditing Mechanisms for Utility Maximization." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on ...

For example, a study found that recent college graduates with high maximizing tendencies accepted jobs that paid 20% higher starting salaries than their satisficing peers.