3 papers
econ.TH2026
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…
econ.TH2024
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…
econ.TH2024
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…