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Research

Working Papers

  • Expected accuracy as a measure of subjective complexity (with Egor Bronnikov).
  • Regulating information (with Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez and Stefan Terstiege).
  • Choice via AI (with Christopher Kops).
  • Breaking through the information bubble: How surprise shapes belief updating across media sources (with Egor Bronnikov, Kaj Thomsson and Alexander Vostroknutov).
  • Sequential search with flexible information (with Pavel Ilinov, Andrei Matveenko, Salil Sharma and Mark Voorneveld). R&R in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
  • Belief updating with misinformation: The role of prior beliefs (with Lars Wittrock and Martin Strobel). R&R in Games and Economic Behavior

Selected Publications

  • Belief identification by proxy. Review of Economic Studies 50 (2026), 697-724.
  • Facts over partisanship: Evidence-based updating of trust in partisan sources (with Giannis Lois and Arno Riedl). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 155 (2026), 133-150.
  • Noisy persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas). Games and Economic Behavior 130 (2021), 44-61.
  • Common priors under endogenous uncertainty (with Pierfrancesco Guarino). Journal of Economic Theory 194 (2021), 105254.
  • Robust scoring rules. Theoretical Economics 15 (2020), 955-987.
  • Past experience of uncertainty affects risk aversion (with Friederike Mengel and Alexander Vostroknutov). Experimental Economics 19 (2016), 151-176.
  • Pairwise epistemic conditions for Nash equilirbium (with Christian Bach). Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014), 48-59.

Other Publications

  • Procuring unverifiable information (with Salil Sharma and Mark Voorneveld). Mathematics of Operations Research 50 (2025), 1433-1453.
  • Resisting persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas and Dimitrios Xefteris). Economic Theory 72 (2021), 723-742.
  • Obvious belief elicitation. Games and Economic Behavior 118 (2019), 374-381.
  • Limited focus in dynamic games (with Andres Perea). International Journal of Game Theory 48 (2019), 571-607.
  • Common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games: A qualitative analysis (with Giacomo Bonanno). Games and Economic Behavior 112 (2018), 231-241.
  • Agreeing to disagree with conditional probability systems. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 18 (2018), 20160182.
  • Common belief in approximate rationality (with Angie Mounir and Andres Perea). Mathematical Social Sciences 91 (2018), 6-16.
  • Growth and inequality in public good provision (with Simon Gaechter, Friederike Mengel and Alexander Vostroknutov). Journal of Public Economics 150 (2017), 1-13.
  • Rationalizability and Nash equilibria in guessing games (with Christian Seel). Games and Economic Behavior 106 (2017), 75-88.
  • Correlated-belief equilibrium. Synthese 193 (2016), 757-779.
  • Rational belief hierarchies. Journal of Mathematical Economics 51 (2014), 121-127.
  • Universally rational belief hierarchies. International Game Theory Review 16 (2014), 1440003.
  • Epistemic equivalence of extended belief hierarchies. Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014), 126-144.
  • Pairwise epistemic conditions for correlated rationalizability. Mathematical Social Sciences 66 (2013), 379-384.
  • Reasoning-based introspection (with Olivier Gossner). Theory and Decision 73 (2012), 513-523.
  • On consensus through communication without a commonly known protocol (with Mark Voorneveld). Journal of Mathematical Economics 47 (2011), 733-739.
  • Aggregate information, common knowledge, and agreeing not to bet. International Journal of Game Theory 40 (2011), 111-117.
  • The target projection dynamic (with Mark Voorneveld). Games and Economic Behavior 67 (2009), 708-719.
  • Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sample selection models (with Alpaslan Akay). Applied Economics 40 (2008), 3101-3110.

Publications in Other Fields

  • Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: The role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error-detection networks (with Giannis Lois, Kenneth Yuen and Arno Riedl). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 19 (2024), nsae056.
  • Giving added value to products from biomass: The role of mathematical programming in the product-driven process synthesis framework (with Aleksandra Zderic, Alexandra Kiskini, Cristhian Almeida Rivera and Edwin Zondervan). Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 46 (2019), 1591-1596.

Inactive Working Papers

  • Reasonable doubt revisited.
  • Affective polarization and election expectations (with Maxim Doiron, Kaj Thomsson and Alexander Vostroknutov).
  • Identification of misreported beliefs.

PhD Dissertation

  • Essays on epistemology and evolutionary game theory, Department of Economics, University of Goteborg (2008).
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