Mark Whitmeyer
Mark Whitmeyer
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University.Β
Here is my CV (last updated November 2024).Β
β¨ Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design
π Rational Inattention and Information Acquisition
π¬ Communication
βοΈ Contests
π΅ Decision Theory
π― Biology
π Consumer Search
π Public Economics
π° Financial Economics
Revising
Revising
(ππ)Β Efficient Learning Under Competition, JPE Micro
(π΅π) Blackwell-Monotone Updating Rules, JPE
(π΅π) The Perils of Overreaction, AEJ: Micro
(π΅πβ¨) Dynamic Signals, ETBΒ
(π΅πβ¨) Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information, GEBΒ
(πβ¨) Attraction Via Prices and Information, RAND
(ππ) Within-Year Uncertainty and the Perception of Year-End Incentives, IT&PF
(β¨π) Competitive Disclosure of Information to a Rationally Inattentive Agent, JEBO
(βοΈβ¨) Dynamic Competitive Persuasion, GEB
Submitting
Submitting
(π΅) Comparative Statics for the Subjective
(π΅) Playing it Safe: Actions Attractive to the Risk Averse
(π΅) Calibrating the Subjective
(β¨π°) Competitive Ratings Design and Pricing
(π΅π) How to Make an Action Better
(π΅πβ¨) Comparisons of Sequential Experiments for Additively Separable Problems
(π΅π) Redeeming Falsifiability?
Sitting
Sitting
(π΅πβ¨) The Extreme Points of Fusions
(π΅) Comparative Patience
(π΅πβ¨) Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?
(π¬β¨ππ°) Costly Evidence and Discretionary Disclosure
(ππ) Search with Flexible InvestigationsΒ
(β¨π) Whose Bias?
(β¨π) Buying Opinions
(π¬β¨π) Bayesian Elicitation
Publications & Forthcoming:
Publications & Forthcoming:
(π΅π) Making Information More ValuableΒ (formerly Flexibility and Information) (2023), Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Slides
(βοΈβ¨) Submission Costs in Risk-Taking Contests (2023), Games & Economic Behavior
(πβ¨) 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. Β Here is a recording.
(β¨) An Imperfect Test for a Virus Can Be Worse Than No Test at All (2021), Health Economics
(β¨) Mixtures of Mean-Preserving Contractions (2021) Joint with Joseph Whitmeyer, Journal of Mathematical Economics
(π¬π―β¨π) Strategic Inattention in the Sir Philip Sidney Game (2021), Journal of Theoretical Biology
(π°) Some Nontrivial Properties of a Formula for Compound Interest (2020) Joint with Isaac M. Sonin, Finance Research Letters
(βοΈ) A Game of Nontransitive Dice (2019) Joint with Artem Hulko, Mathematics Magazine
(βοΈπ°) Relative Performance Concerns Among Investment Managers (2019), Annals of FinanceΒ
(βοΈ) A Competitive Optimal Stopping Game (2017), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
The Monty Hall Problem as a Bayesian Game (2017), Games
Papers Diminished and Gone into the West:
Papers Diminished and Gone into the West:
(πβ¨) Persuasion Produces the (Diamond) Paradox (2020)
(π¬β¨) A More Informed Sender Benefits the Receiver When the Sender Has Transparent Motives (2023) (A More Detailed Proof + ChatGPT "Verification")Β
(πβ¨) 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)
(π¬β¨π) In Simple Communication Games, When does Ex Ante Fact-Finding Benefit the Receiver? (2019) Partially incorporated into the 2024 version of "Bayesian Elicitation."Β
(βοΈβ¨) A Game of Random Variables (2017) Joint with Artem Hulko
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