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 September 2025).Β
βοΈ Contests
π― Biology
π¬ Communication
β¨ Bayesian Persuasion
π Rational Inattention
π΅ Decision-Making
π Consumer Search
π Public Economics
π° Financial Economics
ποΈ βI donβt request that every theory seminar [paper] be about prices and markets. But at least once in a while, that would be nice.β*
New
New
(β¨) Best Garbling is No Garbling: Persuasion in Real Time (2025). Joint with C. Urgun.
(π΅) Comparative Risk Attitude and the Aggregation of Single-Crossing (2025). Joint with G. Curello, and L. Sinander.
(π΅) The Comparative Statics of Dominance (2025). Joint with G. Curello, and L. Sinander.
(π΅) Outside Options and Risk Attitude (2025) Slides. Joint with G. Curello, and L. Sinander.
(ποΈ) Robust Welfare under Imperfect Competition (2025). Joint with K v. Beringe
(πποΈ) Within-Year Labor Supply Responses to Year-End Incentives: Theory and Evidence (2025). Joint with A. KostΓΈl, A. Myhre, and M. Merkle.
Revising
Revising
(β¨π°ποΈ) Competitive Ratings Design and Pricing, RF
(ππποΈ)Β Efficient Learning Under Competition, JPE Micro
(π΅π) The Perils of Overreaction, AEJ: Micro
(π΅πβ¨) Dynamic Signals, ETBΒ
(πβ¨ποΈ) Attraction Via Prices and Information, RAND
(βοΈβ¨) Dynamic Competitive Persuasion, GEB
Submitting
Submitting
(π΅) Comparative Statics for the Subjective
(π΅) Calibrating the Subjective
(π΅) Playing it Safe: Actions Attractive to the Risk Averse
(π΅π) How to Make an Action Better
(π΅πβ¨) Comparisons of Sequential Experiments for Additively Separable Problems
(π΅π) Redeeming Falsifiability?
(π΅πβ¨) The Extreme Points of Fusions
Sitting
Sitting
(π΅) Comparative Patience
(π΅πβ¨) Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?
(π¬β¨ππ°) Costly Evidence and Discretionary Disclosure
(ππποΈ) Search with Flexible InvestigationsΒ
(β¨π) Whose Bias?
(β¨π) Buying Opinions
(π¬β¨π) Bayesian Elicitation
Publications & Forthcoming:
Publications & Forthcoming:
(β¨π) Competitive Disclosure of Information to a Rationally Inattentive Agent (2022), Joint with Vasudha Jain, Accepted, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
(π΅π) Blackwell-Monotone Updating Rules (2024), Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy
(π΅π) Making Information More ValuableΒ (formerly Flexibility and Information) (2023), Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Slides
(ππποΈ) Within-Year Uncertainty and the Perception of Year-End Incentives (2025) Joint with Andreas KostΓΈl and Andreas Myhre, International Tax & Public Finance
(π΅πβ¨) A Concavity in the Value of Information (2025), Games & Economic BehaviorΒ
(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¨ποΈ) 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
*Taken fromΒ C. Sandmann's Blog, "The holdup-problem."
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