S. Nageeb Ali
Professor of Economics, Penn State
What's new?
Wenhao Li and Vasundhara Mallick are on the job market going to Hong Kong University and European University Institute!
Email: nageeb@psu.edu
Snail-mail: 411 Kern Building, University Park, PA 16802.
Publications
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature, with B. Douglas Bernheim, Alexander Bloedel, and Silvia Console Battilana, American Economic Review, November 2023.
Are agenda setters constrained by majority rule?
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Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information, with Navin Kartik and Andreas Kleiner, Econometrica, July 2023.
Are policy negotiations subject to the Coase Conjecture?
Consumer Control and Privacy Policies, with Greg Lewis and Shoshana Vasserman, American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, May 2023.
This paper summarizes a voluntary-disclosure approach to consumer control.
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Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing, with Greg Lewis and Shoshana Vasserman, Review of Economic Studies, March 2023 (Featured Article).
Do consumers benefit from controlling their data?
Communication and Cooperation in Markets, with David Miller, AEJ: Microeconomics, November 2022.
When do traders speak truthfully about their experiences?
How to Sell Hard Information, with Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2022.
How should a certifier design and price evidence?
Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory, with Maximilian Mihm, Lucas Siga, and Chloe Tergiman, American Economic Review, July 2021.
How well do people account for selection?
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Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy, with Roland Bénabou, AEJ: Microeconomics, August 2020.
What are the costs and benefits of using stigma to promote good behavior?
Should Straw Polls be Banned? with J. Aislinn Bohren, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2019.
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Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining, with B. Douglas Bernheim and Xiaochen Fan, Review of Economic Studies, March 2019.
How does information about bargaining power affect the distribution of surplus?
Herding with Costly Information, Journal of Economic Theory, May 2018.
Given that information is costly, when is social learning complete?
On the Role of Responsiveness in Rational Herds, Economics Letters, February 2018.
What distinguishes "coarse" and "rich" action spaces in observational learning?
Ostracism and Forgiveness, with David Miller, American Economic Review, August 2016.
Do individuals reveal when others defect?
Recognition for Sale, Journal of Economic Theory, January 2015.
How does the competition for bargaining power affect the distribution of surplus?
Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives, with Charles Lin, AEJ: Microeconomics, May 2013.
Suppose some are ethical and others wish to appear ethical. Who votes and when?
Herding with Collective Preferences, with Navin Kartik, Economic Theory, November 2012.
When individuals care directly about the actions of others, do they still herd?
Learning Self-Control, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011.
Would an individual learn about his temptations from his experiences?
Waiting to Settle: Multilateral Bargaining with Subjective Biases, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2006.
When do disagreements about bargaining power delay agreements?
Working Papers
The Perverse Politics of Polarization, with Maximilian Mihm and Lucas Siga, November 2023.
What is the role of asymmetric information in distributive politics?
Reselling Information, with Ayal Chen-Zion and Erik Lillethun, December 2022.
How does the possibility for resale affect the price of information?
The College Portfolio Problem, with Ran Shorrer, July 2021.
Which colleges should one target when admissions decisions are uncertain and correlated?
Conventions and Coalitions in Repeated Games, with Ce Liu, January 2020.
When and how do carrots and sticks deter coalitional deviations?
Renegotiation-Proof Multilateral Enforcement, with David Miller and David Yang, March 2017.
When is multilateral enforcement vulnerable to renegotiation?
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies, with David Miller.
Which networks support the greatest cooperation?