Andrew Kosenko

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Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance at the School of Management at Marist College.

I am the organizer of the Marist School of Management research seminar series (RSS) for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 academic years.

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 neuroscience of learning and memory.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Bilateral Information Disclosure in Adverse Selection Markets with Nonexclusive Competition (with Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jungyoll Yun). 2023. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 205, 144-168. Older versions: NBER Working Paper 27041, 26251, 24711, 23556.

• Constrained Persuasion with Private Information. 2023. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 345-370. 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). In Daphne R. Raban and Julia Włodarczuk (Eds.) Elgar Companion to Information Economics.

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

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

Working Papers and Work In Progress

• Mediated Persuasion (November 2022)

• Beyond the Blackwell Order in Dichotomies (March 2024) ("revise and resubmit" at Economics Letters)

• Utilitarianism and Transfers: Bidding for Efficiency (with Nate Neligh, April 2024)

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

Teaching

• Spring 2024 - ECON GU4911: Senior Seminar: Information Economics at Columbia. ECON 104L: Principles of Macroeconomics, ECON 383L: Behavioral Economics, and ECON 477L: Contemporary Economic Issues, 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.