Tommaso Denti

Ciao! I am an associate professor of economics at NYU Stern. My research is in economic theory, with a focus on information and uncertainty. You can find my CV here and my citation profile here. My email address is td838 at stern.nyu.edu.

Working papers

• Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality, with A. Bloedel and L. Pomatto, October 2025.

• Robust predictions in information acquisition games, with D. Ravid, April 2025. Online appendix. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Revision requested by Review of Economic Studies.

• On the events satisfying the sure-thing principle, with L. Pomatto, September 2024.

• Costly monitoring in signaling games, July 2024. Online appendix.

• The experimental order on random posteriors, with M. Marinacci and A. Rustichini, June 2022.

• Network effects in information acquisition, November 2017.

Work in progress

• Statistical decision theory under partial identification, with L. Pomatto.

• Foundations for robust optimization: divergence preferences, with L. Pomatto, P. H. Sung, and B. Wincelberg.

• An actuarial characterization of expected shortfall, with L. Pomatto, P. H. Sung, and B. Wincelberg.

Publications

• Unrestricted information acquisition, Theoretical Economics, July 2023. Previous version with a dynamic process of strategic information acquisition.

• Posterior separable cost of information, American Economic  Review, October 2022. Online appendix. Awarded the 2022 Jaffray lecture at RUD.

• Experimental cost of information, with M. Marinacci and A. Rustichini, American Economic Review, September 2022. Online appendix.

• Model and predictive uncertainty: A foundation for smooth ambiguity preferences, with L. Pomatto, Econometrica, March 2022. Online appendix.  Previous version with results on partial identification.

• A note on rational inattention and rate distortion theory, with M. Marinacci and L. Montrucchio, Decisions in Economics and Finance, June 2020.

• Rationally inattentive preferences and hidden information costs, with H. de Oliveira, M. Mihm, and K. Ozbek, Theoretical Economics, May 2017.

Teaching

• ECON-UB.2: Microeconomics with calculus, undergraduate, NYU Stern, Fall 2023-24.

• Ambiguity and statistics, graduate, Bielefeld University, Summer 2023.

• ECON 6110: Microeconomic theory III, graduate, Cornell University, Spring 2021-23.

• ECON 4020: Game theory I, undergraduate, Cornell University, Spring 2018-23.

• ECO 512: Advanced economic theory II, graduate, Princeton University, Spring 2017.