Emanuel Vespa
UC San Diego
Department of Economics
9500 Gilman Dr. #0508
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Research
Working Papers
(with Guillaume Fréchette and Sevgi Yuksel) Extracting Models From Data Sets: An Experiment
(with Alistair Wilson) Paired-Uniform Scoring: Implementing a Binarized Scoring Rule with Non-mathematical Language
(with Alistair Wilson) Experimenting with Equilibrium Selection in Dynamic Games (instructions)
(with Marta Boczoń, and Alistair Wilson) Lab to Algorithm: Predicting AIs with Humans, and Vice Versa
Published and Forthcoming
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)
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)
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)
Muriel Niederle and Emanuel Vespa (2023). Cognitive Limitations: Failures of Contingent Thinking, Annual Review of Economics, 15 , 307-328.
Ignacio Esponda, Emanuel Vespa and Sevgi Yuksel (2023). Mental Models and Transfer Learning, AEA: Papers & Proceedings, 113, 659-664.
Alistair Wilson and Emanuel Vespa (2020). Information Transmission Under the Shadow of the Future: An Experiment, AEJ: Microeconomics. 12.4, 75-98. (appendices)
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.
Vespa, Emanuel (2020). An Experimental Investigation of Cooperation in the Dynamic Common Pool Game, International Economic Review. 61.1, 417-440. (online appendix)
Vespa, Emanuel and Alistair Wilson (2019). Experimenting with the Transition Rule in Dynamic Games (instructions), Quantitative Economics. 10.4, 1825-1849.
Fudenberg, Drew and Emanuel Vespa (2019). Learning Theory and Heterogeneous Play in a Signaling-Game Experiment, AEJ: Microeconomics. 11.4, 186-215.
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)
Esponda, Ignacio and Emanuel Vespa (2018). Endogenous Sample Selection: A Laboratory Study, Quantitative Economics. 9.1, 183-206. (supplementary material)
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)
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)
Vespa, Emanuel and Alistair Wilson (2016). Communication With Multiple Senders: An Experiment. Quantitative Economics. 7.1, 1-36. (supplementary material)
Vespa, Emanuel (2016). Malapportionment and Multilateral Bargaining: An Experiment. Journal of Public Economics. 133, 64-74. (supplementary material)
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