Mark Whitmeyer

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

Here is my CV (last updated February 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. (🌵🙉) Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information  (2024) New (3/23)!

2. (🌵🙉) Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?  (2024) New (3/11)!

3. (🛒✨) Attraction Via Prices and Information (2024) Joint with Au Pak Hung

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

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

6. (🌵🙉) Bayes = Blackwell, Almost (2023)

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

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

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

10. (🛒🙉) Search and Competition with Endogenous Investigations (2021) Joint with Vasudha Jain. (Supplementary Appendix), revision requested Journal of Industrial Economics Slides

11. (✨🙉) Competitive Disclosure of Information to a Rationally Inattentive Agent (2019) Joint with Vasudha Jain

12.  (✨) Dynamic Competitive Persuasion (2019), revision requested Journal of Economic Theory

13. (💬✨🙉) Bayesian Elicitation (Supplementary Appendix)

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

15. (✨🙉) 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

Works In Progress:

Extreme & Exposed Points of Fusions and Their Economic Applications (Slides) (2024) Joint with Andy Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu, & Philipp Strack (Working title)

Subsumed or Shelved :( Papers:

(🛒✨) 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)

(💬✨🙉) 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