Navin Kartik Curriculum Vitae Contact Information        Email     :          Address:   1022 International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027.        Phones  :   212-854-3926 (voice); 212-854-8059 (fax).

Published Papers

• Strategic Communication with Lying Costs, December 2008, forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies.
  • This subsumes portions of a previous working paper "Information Transmission with Almost-Cheap Talk," the other portions of which are subsumed by "Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria."

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

• Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Nageeb Ali, Jacob Goeree, and Thomas Palfrey, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 98(2), May 2008.

• Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria, with Ying Chen and Joel Sobel, Econometrica 76(1), January 2008.

• A Note on Cheap Talk and Burned Money, Journal of Economic Theory 136(1), September 2007.
  • An earlier version, On Cheap Talk and Burned Money, contains additional results.

• Signaling Character in Electoral Competition, with Preston McAfee, American Economic Review 97(3), June 2007.
  • Supplementary Appendix.   Dilbert cartoon (from www.dilbert.com, 09/24/07, suggested by Nageeb Ali).

• Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk, with Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani, Journal of Economic Theory 134(1), May 2007.

Working Papers

• Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information, with Olivier Tercieux. Revised May 2009.

• Opinions as Incentives, with Yeon-Koo Che. Revised February 2008.

• Social Learning in Elections, with Nageeb Ali. Revised April 2008. Earlier version peer reviewed by NAJ Economics 12:4.

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

• Special Interest Politics and the Quality of Governance, with Doug Bernheim. October 2007 draft available upon request.

Teaching

• Spring 2009: G6212, Microeconomic Analysis II: Game Theory.

• Fall 2008: G6218, Advanced Microeconomic Analysis I.