Mark Whitmeyer

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

Here is my CV (last updated November 2024).

⚔️ Contests

🌵 Decision Theory

🐯 Biology

✨ Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design

🙉 Rational Inattention and Information Acquisition

💬 Communication

🛒 Consumer Search

🍎 Public Economics

💰 Financial Economics

Revising

(🛒🙉) Efficient Learning Under Competition, JPE Micro

(🌵🙉) Blackwell-Monotone Updating Rules, JPE

(🌵🙉) The Perils of Overreaction, AEJ: Micro

(🌵🙉✨) Dynamic Signals, ETB

(🌵🙉✨) Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information, GEB

(🛒✨) Attraction Via Prices and Information, RAND

(🍎🙉) Within-Year Uncertainty and the Perception of Year-End Incentives, IT&PF

(✨🙉) Competitive Disclosure of Information to a Rationally Inattentive Agent, JEBO

(⚔️✨) Dynamic Competitive Persuasion, GEB

Submitting

(🌵) Comparative Statics for the Subjective

(🌵) Playing it Safe: Actions Attractive to the Risk Averse

(🌵) Calibrating the Subjective

(✨💰) Competitive Ratings Design and Pricing

(🌵🙉) How to Make an Action Better

(🌵🙉✨) Comparisons of Sequential Experiments for Additively Separable Problems

(🌵🙉) Redeeming Falsifiability?

Sitting

(🌵🙉✨) The Extreme Points of Fusions

(🌵) Comparative Patience

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

(💬✨🙉💰) Costly Evidence and Discretionary Disclosure

(🛒🙉) Search with Flexible Investigations

(✨🙉) Whose Bias?

(✨🙉) Buying Opinions

(💬✨🙉) Bayesian Elicitation

Publications & Forthcoming:

(🌵🙉) Making Information More Valuable (formerly Flexibility and Information) (2023), Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Slides
(⚔️✨) Submission Costs in Risk-Taking Contests (2023), Games & Economic Behavior
(🛒✨) 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.

(✨) An Imperfect Test for a Virus Can Be Worse Than No Test at All (2021), Health Economics
(✨) Mixtures of Mean-Preserving Contractions (2021) Joint with Joseph Whitmeyer, Journal of Mathematical Economics
(💬🐯✨🙉) Strategic Inattention in the Sir Philip Sidney Game (2021), Journal of Theoretical Biology
(💰) Some Nontrivial Properties of a Formula for Compound Interest (2020) Joint with Isaac M. Sonin, Finance Research Letters
(⚔️) A Game of Nontransitive Dice (2019) Joint with Artem Hulko, Mathematics Magazine
(⚔️💰) Relative Performance Concerns Among Investment Managers (2019), Annals of Finance
(⚔️) 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:

(🛒✨) 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)

(💬✨🙉) 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

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