Navin Kartik Professor, Department of Economics Email    :   Address:   1033 IAB, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027 Phone   :   212-854-3926

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Unpublished Papers and Work in Progress

• A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications to Signaling Games, with Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen, In Progress.  Presentation slides.

• Single-Crossing Differences on Distributions, with SangMok Lee and Daniel Rappoport, revised May 2017.  Presentation slides.

• Reputation, Term Limits, and Incumbency (Dis)Advantage, with Richard Van Weelden, revised May 2016.

• What Kind of Central Bank Competence?, with Alex Frankel, revised October 2016.
  • An earlier version with a different focus was circulated under the title What Kind of Transparency?

• Informative Cheap Talk in Elections, with Richard Van Weelden, revised September 2015.  Supplementary Appendix.  Presentation slides.

• Muddled Information, with Alex Frankel, revised March 2017.  Presentation slides.

• Information Revelation and Pandering in Elections, with Francesco Squintani and Katrin Tinn, revised April 2015.  Presentation slides.

• A Note on Mixed-Nash Implementation, with Olivier Tercieux, January 2012.

• On Optimal Voting Rules under Homogeneous Preferences, with Arnaud Costinot, revised August 2007.

Published Papers

1. Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation, with Richard Van Weelden and Stephane Wolton, revised March 2017, accepted by American Journal of Political Science.
   • Supplementary Appendix is contained in the above pre-publication version.  Presentation slides.

2. Investment in Concealable Information by Biased Experts, with Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen, RAND Journal of Economics, Spring 2017.

3. Contests for Experimentation, with Marina Halac and Qingmin Liu, revised February 2016, accepted by Journal of Political Economy.
   • Supplementary Appendix.

4. Optimal Contracts for Experimentation, with Marina Halac and Qingmin Liu, Review of Economic Studies, July 2016.
   • Supplementary Appendix.   Clarifications.

5. Congested Observational Learning, with Erik Eyster, Andrea Galeotti, and Matthew Rabin, Games and Economic Behavior, September 2014.

6. Candidates, Character, and Corruption, with Doug Bernheim, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2014.
   • Supplementary Appendix. An earlier version was circulated under the title "Of Candidates and Character."

7. Simple Mechanisms and Preferences for Honesty, with Richard Holden and Olivier Tercieux, Games and Economic Behavior, January 2014.

8. Pandering to Persuade, with Yeon-Koo Che and Wouter Dessein, American Economic Review, February 2013.
   • Supplementary Appendix.

9. Herding with Collective Preferences, with Nageeb Ali, Economic Theory, November 2012.
   • Supersedes an earlier working paper "Social Learning in Elections."

10. Implementation with Evidence, with Olivier Tercieux, Theoretical Economics, May 2012.

11. A Note on Undominated Bertrand Equilibria, Economics Letters, May 2011.

12. Opinions as Incentives, with Yeon-Koo Che, Journal of Political Economy, October 2009.
    • Supplementary Appendix.

13. Strategic Communication with Lying Costs, Review of Economic Studies, October 2009.
    • Subsumes portions of an earlier working paper "Information Transmission with Almost-Cheap Talk," the other portions of which are subsumed by "Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria."

14. Would I Lie to You? On Social Preferences and Lying Aversion, with Sjaak Hurkens, Experimental Economics, June 2009.
    • Appendix 1 (Calculations).   Appendix 2 (Subjects' Instructions).

15. Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Nageeb Ali, Jacob Goeree, and Thomas Palfrey, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2008.

16. Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria, with Ying Chen and Joel Sobel, Econometrica, January 2008.

17. A Note on Cheap Talk and Burned Money, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2007.
    • An earlier version, On Cheap Talk and Burned Money, contains additional results.

18. Signaling Character in Electoral Competition, with Preston McAfee, American Economic Review, June 2007.
    • Supplementary Appendix.   Dilbert cartoon.

19. Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk, with Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani, Journal of Economic Theory, May 2007.

Teaching

• Spring 2017: Undergraduate Game Theory (GU4415) and Ph.D. Advanced Microeconomic Analysis II (GR6219); course materials are available at Courseworks.