Research

C. Matthew Leister

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Publications


Influencing a Polarized and Connected Legislature

-with Ratul Das Chaudhury and Birendra Rai

Games and Economic Behavior, 142, 833-850, 2023


Persuadable or Dissuadable Altruists? The Impact of Information of Recipient Characteristics on Giving

-with Lata Gangadharan, Philip J Grossman, Lingbo Huang, and Erte Xiao

The Economic Journal (featured article), 133, 2925–2948, 2023


Social Connectedness and Local Contagion

       -with Yves Zenou and Junjie Zhou

     The Review of Economic Studies, 89, 372-410, 2022


Natural Disaster and Risk-Sharing Behavior: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

       -with Asadul Islam, Minhaj Mahmud and Paul A. Raschky

     Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 61, 67-99, 2020


Word-of-Mouth Communication and Search

       -with Arthur Campbell and Yves Zenou

        The RAND Journal of Economics, 51, 676-712, 2020


Information Acquisition and Welfare in Network Games

     Games and Economic Behavior, 122, 453-475, 2020


Liquidity Risk in Sequential Trading Networks

        -with Shachar Kariv and Maciej Kotowski

     -Online Appendix

         Games and Economic Behavior, 109, 565-581, 2018


Paternalistic Giving: Restricting Recipient Choice

        -with Lata Gangadharan, Philip J Grossman and Kristy Jones

      Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 151, 143-170, 2018



Working papers

Competing Diffusions in a Social Network

       -with Arthur Campbell and Yves Zenou

     Vox talk with Yves Zenou


Trading Networks and Equilibrium Intermediation

       -with Maciej Kotowski