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My name is Elizaveta Zelnitskaia, I am a Ph.D. student in Economics and Econometrics at CERGE-EI, Prague, the Czech Republic. I hold a Master's degree (2020) and a Bachelor's degree (2018) from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, the Russian Federation), Faculty of Economics. 

My research interests include Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics, Information Economics, and Economic History. 

Here is the link for my CV.

My e-mail address:
Elizaveta.Zelnitskaia@cerge-ei.cz 

Work in Progress:

"Risk Aversion in Information Cascades" (draft, AEA RCT ID: AEARCTR-0014525)

How do risk preferences influence the speed and character of social learning? I consider this question with theoretical modeling and a laboratory experiment. In the theoretical model, I generalize the information cascade settings (Banerjee, 1992; Bikhchandani et al., 1992), assuming that agents differ in risk preferences and choose between asymmetrically risky options. In the laboratory experiment, I compare the herding decisions of agents in settings with symmetrically and asymmetrically risky options. Preliminary results of the model and the pilot experiment show that heterogeneity of agents’ risk preferences may slow down convergence speed and change the probability of convergence to different options.

"Post(-Mongol) Roads to Path Dependence" (joint with Sebastian Ottinger) 

"Role of Rational Inattention in the Ellsberg Paradox"