Andrew Kosenko
Associate Professor of Economics, Marist University
Андріӣ Володимирович Косенко
Welcome! I am an Associate Professor 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.
In the Fall 2026 semester I am visiting CEPS, the Centre for Economics at ENS Paris-Saclay.
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.
My CV is here.
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 (Ewha U). 2023. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Older versions: NBER Working Papers 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
Forthcoming in the Festschrift in honor of Joseph Stiglitz.
Working Papers and Work in Progress
Charitable Giving in Wartime: Evidence from Ukraine’s War Fundraising
Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economics and Statistics
with Margaryta Klymak (KCL), Oleg Korenok (VCU), Dariia Mykhailyshyna (KSE), and Kathryn Vasilaky (Cal Poly)
Efficiency in Dynamic Games with Sequential Transfers
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory
with Nate Neligh (UTK)
Mediated Persuasion and Games with Restrictions
with Nate Neligh (UTK)
Bayes vs Skinner: Motivated Learning Under Uncertainty
with Nate Neligh (UTK)
Sources of Cognitive Errors
with Nate Neligh (UTK)
Cognitive Mechanisms of Information Demand
with Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia Zuckerman Institute) and Matthew Jiwa (Melbourne)
Teaching
Foreign Policy Writing
Writing
Make Russia Pay for Its War on Ukraine
with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Project Syndicate, November 2025.
Europe's Powerful Tool Against Russia
with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Project Syndicate, March 2025.
Reprinted in The Guardian.
Russia's Costly Conquest in Ukraine
with Peter Liberman. Foreign Affairs, February 2025.
The Way Forward for Ukraine's Economy
with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Project Syndicate, July 2024.
A Proposal for Russian Asset Seizure
with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Brookings Institution Policy Brief, July 2024.
Seizing Russia's Frozen Assets Is the Right Move
with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Project Syndicate, January 2024.
Reprinted in The Guardian (UK), El País (ES), Les Echos (FR), De Standaard (BE), The Kyiv Independent (UA), and other outlets.
A Future without Putin: Russia's Military Defeat as a Way to a More Democratic, Green, and Just Europe
with Ilona Sologoub. VoxUkraine, July 2022.
Author archives: Project Syndicate, VoxUkraine.
Interviews
On Ukrainian resilience and the economy
L'Espresso, August 2026.
On the European Council's plan for Russian assets held in Euroclear
la Repubblica, October 2025.
On secondary sanctions on Russia
la Repubblica, July 2025.
On the seizure of Russian assets
Deutsche Welle (Polish Service), March 2025.
Personal
I am a member of the “Economists for Ukraine” open collective. To learn more about our efforts please visit our site.
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.
Contact
3399 North Road, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Management, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601