Tommaso Denti

Ciao! I am an assistant professor at the NYU Stern Department of Economics. I work on economic theory, information, and uncertainty. Here are my CV and citations. My email address is td838 at stern.nyu.edu.

Working papers

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

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

• Robust predictions in games with rational inattention, with D. Ravid, July 2023. Online appendix. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

• 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

• Solving rational inattention problems, with A. Bloedel and L. Pomatto

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