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econ.TH2026
Delusions of Grandeur and Their Benefits (and Hazards)
Cooper Howes, Can Urgun, Mark Whitmeyer
We study a population-wide tournament in which agents, who care both about their absolute and relative wealth, experiment by searching over correlated objects. We explore the role…
econ.TH2025
Best Garbling is No Garbling: Persuasion in Real Time
Can Urgun, Mark Whitmeyer
We study continuous-time persuasion where a sender controls both how informative a signal is over time and when to stop providing information to a receiver. There is an exogenous s…
econ.TH2021
Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves
Doruk Cetemen, Can Urgun, Leeat Yariv
We study a model of collective search by teams. Discoveries beget discoveries and correlated search results are governed by a Brownian path. Search results' variation at any point…