3 papers
econ.TH2026
Revealed Bayesian Persuasion
Jeffrey Mensch
How does one test empirically the hypothesis that a decision maker (DM) is being influenced by information via Bayesian persuasion? In this paper, I consider a DM whose state-depen…
econ.TH2026
Posterior-Separable Costs and Menu Preferences
Henrique de Oliveira, Jeffrey Mensch
We consider an agent with a rationally inattentive preference over menus of acts, as in de Oliveira et al (2017). We show that two axioms, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives a…
econ.TH2024
Posterior-Mean Separable Costs of Information Acquisition
Jeffrey Mensch, Komal Malik
We analyze a problem of revealed preference given state-dependent stochastic choice data in which the payoff to a decision maker (DM) only depends on their beliefs about posterior…