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Publications (18)

econ.TH2026

Endogenous Attention and the Spread of False News

Tuval Danenberg, Drew Fudenberg

We study the impact of endogenous attention in a dynamic social media model. Each period, a user observes a random story and decides whether to share it. Users like sharing true an…

econ.TH2020

A Reputation for Honesty

Drew Fudenberg, Ying Gao, Harry Pei

We analyze situations in which players build reputations for honesty rather than for playing particular actions. A patient player facing a sequence of short-run opponents makes an…

econ.GN2026

Model Restrictiveness in Functional and Structural Settings

Drew Fudenberg, Wayne Yuan Gao, Zhiheng You

We extend the restrictiveness measure of Fudenberg, Gao & Liang (2026) to functional and structural econometric settings using Gaussian process priors. We find that models evaluate…

econ.TH2026

Bayesian Persuasion with Selective Disclosure

Yifan Dai, Drew Fudenberg, Harry Pei

A sender first publicly commits to an experiment and then can privately run additional experiments and selectively disclose their outcomes to a receiver. The sender has private inf…

econ.TH2020

Payoff Information and Learning in Signaling Games

Drew Fudenberg, Kevin He

We add the assumption that players know their opponents' payoff functions and rationality to a model of non-equilibrium learning in signaling games. Agents are born into player rol…

q-bio.PE2019

Simple Records Support Robust Indirect Reciprocity

Daniel Clark, Drew Fudenberg, Alexander Wolitzky

Indirect reciprocity is a foundational mechanism of human cooperation. Existing models of indirect reciprocity fail to robustly support social cooperation: image scoring models fai…