Research

Working Papers

1. (with Guillaume Fréchette and Sevgi Yuksel) Extracting Models From Data Sets: An Experiment

2. (with Georg Weizsäcker) Do We Talk Too Much? (appendices)

3. (with Alistair Wilson) Paired-Uniform Scoring: Implementing a Binarized Scoring Rule with Non-mathematical Language

4. (with Alistair Wilson) Experimenting with Equilibrium Selection in Dynamic Games (instructions) 

5. (with Ted Bergstrom) Living Supply and Demand Curves

6. (with Marta Boczoń, and Alistair Wilson) Lab to Algorithm: Predicting AIs with Humans, and Vice Versa

7. (with Guillaume Fréchette and Sevgi Yuksel) Repeated Games (prepared for the Handbook of Experimental Economics Methods)

Published and Forthcoming

1. Fréchette, Guillaume, Emanuel Vespa and Sevgi Yuksel (2025), Extracting Statistical Relationships from Observational Data: Predicting with Full or Partial Information. AEA: Papers & Proceedings (forthcoming)

2. Marta Boczoń, Emanuel Vespa, Taylor Weidman and Alistair Wilson (2024) Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games. Journal of the European Economic Association (accepted) (online appendices)

3. Ignacio Esponda and Emanuel Vespa (2024). Contingent Thinking and the Sure-Thing Principle: Revisiting Classic Anomalies in the Laboratory  Review of Economic Studies. 91.5, 2806-2831.  (procedures appendix)

4. Ignacio Esponda, Emanuel Vespa and Sevgi Yuksel (2024). Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect. American Economic Review, 114.3, 752-782.  (procedures)

5. Muriel Niederle and Emanuel Vespa (2023).  Cognitive Limitations: Failures of Contingent Thinking, Annual Review of Economics, 15 , 307-328.

6. Ignacio Esponda, Emanuel Vespa and Sevgi Yuksel (2023).  Mental Models and Transfer Learning,  AEA: Papers & Proceedings, 113, 659-664.

7. Alistair Wilson and Emanuel Vespa (2020). Information Transmission Under the Shadow of the Future: An Experiment, AEJ: Microeconomics. 12.4, 75-98.  (appendices) 

8. Salz, Tobias and Emanuel Vespa (2020). Estimating Dynamic Games of Oligopolistic Competition: An Evaluation in the Laboratory, RAND Journal of Economics. 51(2), 447-469.

9. Vespa, Emanuel (2020). An Experimental Investigation of Cooperation in the Dynamic Common Pool Game, International Economic Review. 61.1, 417-440.  (online appendix)

10. Vespa, Emanuel and  Alistair Wilson (2019). Experimenting with the Transition Rule in Dynamic Games (instructions), Quantitative Economics. 10.4, 1825-1849. 

11. Fudenberg, Drew and Emanuel Vespa (2019). Learning Theory and Heterogeneous Play in a Signaling-Game Experiment, AEJ: Microeconomics. 11.4, 186-215.

12. Martínez-Marquina, Alejandro,  Muriel Niederle, and Emanuel Vespa (2019). Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty,  American Economic Review. 109.10, 3437-3474. (online appendix; instructions)

13. Esponda, Ignacio and Emanuel Vespa (2018). Endogenous Sample Selection: A Laboratory Study, Quantitative Economics. 9.1, 183-206. (supplementary material)

14. Fréchette, Guillaume and Emanuel Vespa (2017). The Determinants of Voting In Multilateral Bargaining Games. Journal of the Economic Science Association. 3, 26-43. (supplementary material; data)

15. Agranov, Marina, Guillaume Fréchette, Thomas Palfrey and Emanuel Vespa (2016).  Static and Dynamic Underinvestment: An Experimental Investigation. Journal of Public Economics, 143, 125-141. (supplementary material; data)

16. Vespa, Emanuel and  Alistair Wilson (2016). Communication With Multiple Senders: An Experiment. Quantitative Economics. 7.1, 1-36. (supplementary material)

17. Vespa, Emanuel (2016).  Malapportionment and Multilateral Bargaining: An Experiment. Journal of Public Economics. 133, 64-74. (supplementary material)

18. Esponda, Ignacio and Emanuel Vespa (2014). Hypothetical Thinking and Information Extraction in the Laboratory. AEJ: Microeconomics. 6.4, 180-202.  (supplementary material and data)

Work in Progress

(with Lea Nagel and Muriel Niederle) Decomposing the Winner's Curse in Common-Value Auctions

(with Guillaume Fréchette and Sam Kapon) Working Memory and Cooperation

Non-active Working Papers

(with Ryan Booth) Public Unions and Policy Persistence: A Dynamic Theory of Interest Groups with an Application to US Cities