Tommaso Denti

Ciao! I am an assistant professor (Salvatore faculty fellow) at the Cornell University Department of Economics. I work on economic theory, information, and uncertainty. Here are my CV and citations. My email address is tjd237 at cornell.edu.

Working papers

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

• Costly monitoring in signaling games, March 2021

• Network effects in information acquisition, November 2017

Work in progress

• Comparing Incomplete Information and Rational Inattention in Games, with D. Ravid

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

• Models of random choice for rational inattention, with A. Bloedel and L. Pomatto

Publications

• Unrestricted information acquisition, Theoretical Economics, forthcoming. 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 6110: Microeconomic theory III, Cornell, Spring 2021-23

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

• ECO 512: Advanced economic theory II, with S. Morris, Princeton, Spring 2017