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Causal Persuasion
Anastasia Burkovskaya, Egor Starkov
Correlation is not causation... until the right variables are on the table. We propose a model of causal persuasion, in which a sender selectively discloses variables alongside a s…
Strategic Attribute Learning
Jean-Michel Benkert, Ludmila Matyskova, Egor Starkov
A researcher allocates a budget of informative tests across multiple unknown attributes to influence a decision-maker. We derive the researcher's equilibrium learning strategy by s…
Designing Social Learning
Aleksei Smirnov, Egor Starkov
This paper studies strategic communication in the context of social learning. Product reviews are used by consumers to learn product quality, but in order to write a review, a cons…
Optimally Biased Expertise
Pavel Ilinov, Andrei Matveenko, Maxim Senkov +1
We show that in delegation problems, a principal benefits from belief misalignment vis-à-vis an agent when the latter can flexibly acquire costly information. The agent optimally s…
Only Time Will Tell: Credible Dynamic Signaling
Egor Starkov
This paper characterizes informational outcomes in a model of dynamic signaling with vanishing commitment power. It shows that contrary to popular belief, informative equilibria wi…