Professor of Economics
European University Institute
Resume
Laurent A. Mathevet
Address:Via delle Fontanelle, 18, 50014 Fiesole FI, Italy
Email:laurent.mathevet@eui.eu
Phone[+39] 055 4685 452
BIO
Laurent Mathevet is a Professor of Economics at the European University Institute (EUI). He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the Université of Saint-Etienne (France). Before joining the EUI, he was a faculty member at New York University and before that at the University of Texas at Austin.
His research is in economic theory with a focus on incentive design and incomplete information. What started as two separate interests evolved into one: the design of incentives through information or information design. In environments where individuals have incomplete information about relevant parameters, information can be used to affect their behavior. Instead of the traditional (often monetary) incentive systems based on rewards and punishments, such as contracts, taxes & subsidies, etc., an informational advantage can be used to incentivize certain behaviors. Marketing, political campaigns, school grading systems, real-time road navigation advice, and even informal conversations are acts of disclosure often carried out with an intention. Information design is the systematic study of how to strategically disclose information under commitment. Prof. Mathevet’s research has explored the theoretical foundations of information design, its behavioral implications, and its organizational structure.
Research
IN PROGRESS
“Reputation and Information Design”
With David Pearce and Ennio Stacchetti, February 2024.
(Codes and outputs for simulations)
“Organized Information Transmission”
With Ina Taneva, January 2022.
(R code for LP analysis)
(Online presentation at the Virtual Market Design Seminar)
“Mining The Long Run in Repeated Games”
With Christos Ioannou, Julian Romero and Huanren Zhang, Coming soon.
(Previously “Predictive Repeated Game Theory: Measures and Experiments”).
“Simplifying Bayesian Persuasion”
With Elliot Lipnowski, March 2017.
PUBLICATIONS
“Optimal Attention Management: A Tractable Framework”
With Elliot Lipnowski and Dong Wei, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 133, 2022, 170-180.
“Attention Management”
With Elliot Lipnowski and Dong Wei, American Economic Review: Insights, vol. 2 (1), 2020.
“On Information Design in Games”
With Jacopo Perego and Ina Taneva, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 128 (4), 2020.
“Disclosure to a Psychological Audience”
With Elliot Lipnowski, AEJ: Microeconomics, vol. 10 (4), 2018, 67-93.
“An Axiomatization of Plays in Repeated Games”
Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 110, 2018, 19-31. (Supplementary Material)
“Beliefs and Rationalizability in Games with Complementarities”
Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 85, 2014, 252-271.
“Tractable Dynamic Global Games and Applications”
With Jakub Steiner, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 148, 2013, 2583-2619.
“Finite Supermodular Design with Interdependent Valuations”
With Ina Taneva, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 82, 2013, 327–349.
“Designing Stable Mechanisms in Economic Environments”
With Paul J. Healy, Theoretical Economics, vol. 7 (3), 2012, 609-443.
“Supermodular Mechanism Design”,
Theoretical Economics, vol. 5 (3), 2010, 403-443.
“A Contraction Principle for Finite Global Games”
Economic Theory, vol. 42 (3), 2010, 539-563.
“Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes”
With Matthew O. Jackson and Kyle Mattes, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 2 (1), 2007, 67-94.
“Multiplicity of Equilibria and Information Structures in Empirical Games”
With multiple co-authors (Brett Gordon, Paul Ellickson and Ron Borkovsky were the principal organizers), Marketing Letters, 2014
Curriculum
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology, 2008
M.S. in Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology, 2005
B.S. in Economics
Université de Saint-Etienne, 2003
EMPLOYMENT
Professor
Department of Economics, European University Institute. 2021 – present
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, New York University. 2013 – 2021
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin. 2008 – 2013