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I study and teach economic theory at Penn State. I serve as a Co-Editor at AEJ: Microeconomics and Foreign Editor at Review of Economic Studies.
Email: nageeb@psu.edu
Snail-mail: 411 Kern Building, University Park, PA 16802.
Publications
Publications
Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation, with Ran Shorrer, American Economic Review, February 2025.
Which colleges should an applicant target?
The Political Economy of Zero-Sum Thinking, with Maximilian Mihm and Lucas Siga, Econometrica, January 2025.
Why does zero-sum thinking prevail even in positive-sum choices?
Reselling Information, with Ayal Chen-Zion and Erik Lillethun, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2024.
How does resale affect the price of information?
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature, with B. Douglas Bernheim, Alexander Bloedel, and Silvia Console Battilana, American Economic Review, November 2023.
Are agenda setters constrained by majority rule?
Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information, with Navin Kartik and Andreas Kleiner, Econometrica, July 2023.
Are policy negotiations subject to the Coase Conjecture?
Consumer Control and Privacy Policies, with Greg Lewis and Shoshana Vasserman, American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, May 2023.
This paper summarizes a voluntary-disclosure approach to consumer control.
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Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing, with Greg Lewis and Shoshana Vasserman, Review of Economic Studies, March 2023 (Featured Article).
Can consumers benefit from sharing their data?
Communication and Cooperation in Markets, with David Miller, AEJ: Microeconomics, November 2022.
Would traders speak truthfully about their experiences?
How to Sell Hard Information, with Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2022.
How should a certifier design and price evidence?
Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory, with Maximilian Mihm, Lucas Siga, and Chloe Tergiman, American Economic Review, July 2021.
Do people account for selection, and if so, when?
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Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy, with Roland Bénabou, AEJ: Microeconomics, August 2020.
What are the costs of using stigma to promote good behavior?
Should Straw Polls be Banned? with J. Aislinn Bohren, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2019.
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Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining, with B. Douglas Bernheim and Xiaochen Fan, Review of Economic Studies, March 2019.
How does information about power affect bargaining shares?
Herding with Costly Information, Journal of Economic Theory, May 2018.
Given that information is costly, when is social learning complete?
On the Role of Responsiveness in Rational Herds, Economics Letters, February 2018.
What distinguishes "coarse" and "rich" action spaces in social learning?
Ostracism and Forgiveness, with David Miller, American Economic Review, August 2016.
Would individuals reveal when others defect?
Recognition for Sale, Journal of Economic Theory, January 2015.
How does the contest for power affect bargaining shares?
Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives, with Charles Lin, AEJ: Microeconomics, May 2013.
Suppose some are ethical and others wish to appear ethical. Who votes and when?
Herding with Collective Preferences, with Navin Kartik, Economic Theory, November 2012.
If individuals care directly about the actions of others, do they still herd?
Learning Self-Control, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011.
Do we learn from past mistakes?
Waiting to Settle: Multilateral Bargaining with Subjective Biases, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2006.
Do disagreements about power prolong negotiations?
Working Papers
Working Papers
Coalitions in Repeated Games, with Ce Liu, February 2025.
How do carrots and sticks influence coalitional behavior?
From Design to Disclosure, with Andreas Kleiner and Kun Zhang, November 2024.
What happens in evidence games in which the sender would not like to reveal her type?
Renegotiation-Proof Multilateral Enforcement, with David Miller and David Yang, March 2017.
When is multilateral enforcement vulnerable to renegotiation?
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies, with David Miller.
Which networks support the greatest cooperation?
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