Mark Whitmeyer

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University. 

Here is my CV (last updated May 2024). 

These are my working papers, publications, and works in progress, in (mostly) chronological order. Here is a key:

✨ Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design

🐯 Biology

💬 Communication

🛒 Consumer Search

⚔️ Contests

🌵 Decision Theory

💰 Financial Economics

🍎 Public Economics

🙉 Rational Inattention and Information Acquisition

Working Papers:

1. (🌵🙉✨) The Extreme Points of Fusions (2024) Joint with Andy Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu, & Philipp Strack 

2. (🌵🙉) How to Make an Action Better (2024) Joint with Marilyn Pease

3. (🌵) Comparative Patience (2024)

4. (🌵🙉✨) Dynamic Signals (2024) Joint with Cole Williams

5. (🌵🙉✨) Comparisons of Sequential Experiments for Additively Separable Problems (2024) Joint with Cole Williams

6. (🌵🙉) The Perils of Overreaction (2024) Konstantin von Beringe

7. (🌵🙉✨) Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information  (2024), revision requested  Games & Economic Behavior

8. (🌵🙉✨) Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?  (2024) 

9. (🛒✨) Attraction Via Prices and Information (2024) Joint with Au Pak Hung, revision requested RAND Journal of Economics Slides 

10. (🌵🙉) Making Information More Valuable  (formerly Flexibility and Information) (2023), revision requested Journal of Political Economy Slides

11. (🌵🙉) Safety, in Numbers (2023) Joint with Marilyn Pease

12. (🌵🙉) Bayes = Blackwell, Almost (2023), revision requested Journal of Political Economy

13. (💬✨🙉💰) Costly Evidence and Discretionary Disclosure (2022) Joint with Kun Zhang (Supplementary Appendix)

14. (🍎🙉) Within-Year Uncertainty and the Perception of Year-End Incentives (2022) Joint with Andreas R. Kostøl and Andreas S. Myhre

15. (🛒🙉) Search with Flexible Investigations (2021) Joint with Vasudha Jain. (Supplementary Appendix) Slides

16. (✨🙉) Competitive Disclosure of Information to a Rationally Inattentive Agent (2019) Joint with Vasudha Jain, revision requested Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

17.  (✨) Dynamic Competitive Persuasion (2019)

18. (🌵🙉) Redeeming Falsifiability? (2023) Joint with Kun Zhang

19. (✨🙉) Whose Bias? (2021) Joint with Vasudha Jain

Publications & Forthcoming:

1. (⚔️✨) Submission Costs in Risk-Taking Contests (2023), Games & Economic Behavior

2. (🛒✨) Attraction Versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets (2023) Joint with Au Pak Hung. (Supplementary Appendix), Journal of Political Economy

I presented this (on 3/16/22) in the Consumer Search Digital Seminar Series.  Here is a recording of the talk

3. (✨) An Imperfect Test for a Virus Can Be Worse Than No Test at All (2021), Health Economics

4. (✨) Mixtures of Mean-Preserving Contractions (2021) Joint with Joseph Whitmeyer, Journal of Mathematical Economics

5. (💬🐯✨🙉) Strategic Inattention in the Sir Philip Sidney Game (2021), Journal of Theoretical Biology

6. (💰) Some Nontrivial Properties of a Formula for Compound Interest (2020) Joint with Isaac M. Sonin, Finance Research Letters

7. (⚔️) A Game of Nontransitive Dice (2019) Joint with Artem Hulko, Mathematics Magazine

8. (⚔️💰) Relative Performance Concerns Among Investment Managers (2019), Annals of Finance 

9. (⚔️) A Competitive Optimal Stopping Game (2017), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

10. The Monty Hall Problem as a Bayesian Game (2017), Games

Papers Diminished and Gone into the West:

(✨🙉) Buying Opinions (2022) Joint with Kun Zhang, (Supplementary Appendix)  Slides 

(🛒✨) Persuasion Produces the (Diamond) Paradox (2020)

(💬✨) A More Informed Sender Benefits the Receiver When the Sender Has Transparent Motives (2023) (A More Detailed Proof + ChatGPT "Verification") 

(🛒✨) Persuading a Consumer to Visit (Online Appendix) (2018) This paper was merged with Au Pak Hung's paper, "Competition in Designing Pandora's Boxes," yielding the paper "Attraction Versus Persuasion."

A Simple Proof of the Monotonicity of the Invariant Distribution for a Discrete Markov Chain (2019)

(💬✨🙉) Bayesian Elicitation (2019). Later version: Bayesian Elicitation (Supplementary Appendix)

(💬✨🙉) In Simple Communication Games, When does Ex Ante Fact-Finding Benefit the Receiver? (2019) Partially incorporated into the 2024 version of "Bayesian Elicitation."

(⚔️✨) A Game of Random Variables (2017) Joint with Artem Hulko