Andrew Kosenko

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Welcome! I am an Associate Professor (as of July 1, 2025) of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance at the School of Management at Marist University. I often teach at Columbia University as well.

My research interests are in microeconomic theory - information economics (strategic communication and information design), and the implications of memory imperfections for strategic behavior. Aside from that I am interested in repeated games, experimental economics, and the economics and neuroscience of learning and memory.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Beyond the Blackwell Order in Dichotomies. 2024. Economics Letters.

• Bilateral Information Disclosure in Adverse Selection Markets with Nonexclusive Competition (with Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jungyoll Yun). 2023. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Older versions: NBER Working Paper 27041, 26251, 24711, 23556.

• Constrained Persuasion with Private Information. 2023. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. Older version: Bayesian Persuasion with Private Information (February 2018).

Book Chapters

• Robust Theory and Fragile Practice: Endogenous Information in a World of Disinformation Part 1: Indirect Communication (with Joseph E. Stiglitz). 2024. Elgar Companion to Information Economics. Daphne R. Raban and Julia Włodarczuk (Eds.)

• Robust Theory and Fragile Practice: Endogenous Information in a World of Disinformation Part 2: Direct Communication (with Joseph E. Stiglitz). 2024. Elgar Companion to Information Economics. Daphne R. Raban and Julia Włodarczuk (Eds.)

• Algorithms and Forward Externalities. Chapter forthcoming in the Festschrift in honor of Joseph Stiglitz.

Working Papers and Work In Progress

• Mediated Persuasion (November 2022)

• Efficiency in Dynamic Games with Sequential Transfers (with Nate Neligh. "Revise and resubmit" at Journal of Economic Theory)

• Bayes vs Skinner: Motivated Learning Under Uncertainty (with Nate Neligh, in progress)

• Dynamic Effort Allocation in Information Processing (with Nate Neligh, data collection in progress)

• Cognitive Mechanisms of Information Demand (with Jacqueline Gottlieb, Vincent Ferrera, and Nate Neligh, data collection in progress)

• Charitable Giving in Wartime: Evidence from Ukraine’s War Fundraising (with Margaryta Klymak, Oleg Korenok, Dariia Mykhailyshyna, and Kathryn Vasilaky, in progress)

Foreign Policy Writing

• A Proposal for Russian Asset Seizure (with Joseph E. Stiglitz) Brookings Institution Policy Brief (July 2024)

• Russia's Costly Conquest in Ukraine (with Peter Liberman) Foreign Affairs (online-only article, February 2025)

Teaching

• Fall 2025: ECON 303L (Intermediate Microeconomics), ECON 403L (Game Theory) at Marist.

Writing and Personal

• I was very grateful to have been nominated and selected for a profile by For The Record, an initiative of Marist College's student newspaper Marist Circle. The profile tells a large part of my personal story, and includes an interview, with a story by Maddi Langweil and photography by Ale Basalo, to whom I extend my warmest thanks.

• I am a member of the "Economists for Ukraine" open collective. To learn more about out efforts please visit our site.

• Bylines on Ukrainian topics at VoxUkraine and Project Syndicate. The January 2024 Project Syndicate piece was reprinted in The Guardian (UK), El Pais (ES), Les Echos (FR), De Standaard (BE), The Kyiv Independent (UA), and several other outlets in multiple languages. The March 2025 Project Syndicate piece was also translated into multiple languages and reprinted in various outlets, including The Guardian.