Navin Kartik
Professor of Economics, Yale University

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Phone   : (+1) 203-432-3521

Address: Yale Economics Department, P.O. Box 208268, New Haven, CT 06520-8268 (USA)


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Unpublished Papers

Published and Forthcoming Papers

  1. Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design and Adverse Selection, with Weijie Zhong
  2. Test-Optional Admissions, with Wouter Dessein and Alex Frankel
  3. The Test-Optional Puzzle, with Wouter Dessein and Alex Frankel
  4. Single-Crossing Differences in Convex Environments, with SangMok Lee and Daniel Rappoport
  5. Beyond Unbounded Beliefs: How Preferences and Information Interplay in Social Learning
  6. Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information, with Nageeb Ali and Andreas Kleiner
  7. Improving Information from Manipulable Data, with Alex Frankel
  8. Delegation in Veto Bargaining, with Andreas Kleiner and Richard Van Weelden
  9. Information Validates the Prior: A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications, with Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen
    An earlier version with a different emphasis and leading application:
  10. Muddled Information, with Alex Frankel
  11. Reputation Effects and Incumbency (Dis)Advantage, with Richard Van Weelden
  12. Informative Cheap Talk in Elections, with Richard Van Weelden
  13. What Kind of Central Bank Competence?, with Alex Frankel
    An earlier version with a different focus was circulated under the title What Kind of Transparency?
  14. Communication in Context: Interpreting Promises in an Experiment on Competition and Trust
    Supplementary Appendix is contained in the above early-edition version
  15. Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation, with Richard Van Weelden and Stephane Wolton
    Supplementary Appendix is contained in the above pre-publication version
  16. Contests for Experimentation, with Marina Halac and Qingmin Liu
  17. Investment in Concealable Information by Biased Experts, with Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen
  18. Optimal Contracts for Experimentation, with Marina Halac and Qingmin Liu
  19. Congested Observational Learning, with Erik Eyster and Andrea Galeotti and Matthew Rabin
  20. Candidates, Character, and Corruption, with Doug Bernheim
  21. Simple Mechanisms and Preferences for Honesty, with Richard Holden and Olivier Tercieux
  22. Pandering to Persuade, with Yeon-Koo Che and Wouter Dessein
  23. Herding with Collective Preferences, with Nageeb Ali
  24. Implementation with Evidence, with Olivier Tercieux
  25. A Note on Undominated Bertrand Equilibria
  26. Opinions as Incentives, with Yeon-Koo Che
  27. Strategic Communication with Lying Costs
  28. Would I Lie to You? On Social Preferences and Lying Aversion, with Sjaak Hurkens
  29. Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Nageeb Ali, Jacob Goeree, and Thomas Palfrey
  30. Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria, with Ying Chen and Joel Sobel
  31. A Note on Cheap Talk and Burned Money
  32. Signaling Character in Electoral Competition, with Preston McAfee
  33. Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk, with Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani

Teaching

  • Spring 2026: Will be added.