Guy Mayraz

Research Associate
Centre for Economic Performance
London School of Economics

Email: Guy.Mayraz@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Office: +44 1865 278 990
Mobile: +44 7967 110 536     

Research Interests
Behavioural Economics, Decison Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Subjective Well-Being.

Working Papers

Priors and Desires - A Model of Payoff-Dependent Beliefs.

Life-Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence (with Gert Wagner and Jürgen Schupp).

Other Economics Papers

The Marginal Utility of Income (with Richard Layard and Steve Nickell), Journal of Public Economics, 2008, vol 92, pages 1846-1857.

Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right? (with Richard Layard and Steve Nickell), to appear as a book chapter in the proceedings of the Princeton Meeting on International Differences in Well-being (book edited by Diener, Kahneman, and Helliwell).

Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy (with Richard Layard, David Clark, and Martin Knapp), National Institute Economic Review, 2008, no. 202. p. 90-98.

Late-Life Decline in Well-Being Across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US (principal authors: Denis Gerstorf and Nilam Ram), Psychology and Aging (accepted for publication).

Computer Science Papers

Recognizing Handwritten Digits Using Hierarchical Products of Experts (with Geoffrey Hinton), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2002, vol 24(2), pages 189-197.

Construction of Physical Maps from Oligonucleotide Fingerprints Data, (with Ron Shamir), Journal of Computational Biology, 1999, vol 6, p. 237-252.