Andrew Kosenko

I am a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh for the 2018-2019 academic year.

My main research interests are in game theory, mainly in information economics (strategic communication, information provision and design, and persuasion) as well as the implications of memory and rationality, broadly understood, on strategic behavior. Aside from that I am also interested in repeated games and experimental economics.

My email is "ank two one two at pitt dot edu" (formatted in the obvious way, and with the words "one" and "two" replaced with digits).

Research

• Bayesian Persuasion with Private Information (February 2018)

• Characterization, Existence and Pareto Optimality in Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information with Endogenous and Asymmetric Disclosures: Revisiting Rothschild-Stiglitz (with Joseph E. Stiglitz and Jungyoll Yun; NBER Working Paper No. 24711, February 2018). Under review.

Older version: Equilibrium in a Competitive Insurance Market under Adverse Selection with Endogenous Information (with Joseph E. Stiglitz and Jungyoll Yun; NBER Working paper No. 23556, June 2017)

• Mediated Persuasion: Some Examples (June 2018)

• Things Left Unsaid: The Belief-Payoff Monotonicity Refinement (June 2018)

Teaching

• During the summer 2018 semester I am teaching Econ 2001 - Intro to Math Methods ("math camp" for econ PhD students). Course materials are available on Courseweb.

Previously I have been a teaching assistant for a number of courses in many areas of economics and at various levels. The most recent teaching evaluations are below.

• Spring 2016. "Perspectives on Economic Studies", first year required PhD course, instructor Joseph E. Stiglitz. Evaluation

• Fall 2015. "Financial Crises", upper-level undergraduate course, instructor Jose Scheinkman. Evaluation

• Spring 2015. "Historical Foundations of Modern Economics", upper-level undergraduate course, instructor Andre Burgstaller. Evaluation
• Fall 2014. "Financial Crises", instructor Jose Scheinkman. Evaluation