Associate Professor
Resume
Laurent A. Mathevet
Address:1130 E. Helen Street,
McClelland Hall 401S
Tucson, Arizona 85721
Email:[email protected]
Phone:520-621-4264
BIO
Laurent Mathevet is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and his B.S. from the Université de Saint-Étienne in France. Before joining the University of Arizona, he held faculty positions at the European University Institute, New York University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
His research lies in economic theory, with a particular focus on incentive design and decision-making under incomplete information. His early interests in these two areas gradually converged around a central question: how can information itself be used to shape incentives and influence behavior?
Traditional incentive systems rely on rewards and punishments, such as contracts, taxes, and subsidies. In many settings, however, behavior can also be influenced by selectively disclosing information. Marketing campaigns, political communication, school grading systems, real-time navigation advice, and even informal conversations all involve decisions about what information to reveal and how to present it.
Information design is the systematic study of how information can be strategically disclosed when the designer can commit to a disclosure policy. Professor Mathevet’s research examines the theoretical foundations of information design, its behavioral implications, and the organizational structures through which information is produced and communicated.
Research
IN PROGRESS
“Reputation and Information Design” (with David Pearce and Ennio Stacchetti).
May 2026. R&R Journal of Political Economy. (Codes & Simulations).
“Nonparametric Methods For Repeated Games” (with Christos Ioannou, Julian Romero, and Huanren Zhang).
August 2026.
“Organized Information Transmission” (with Ina Taneva).
“Simplifying Bayesian Persuasion” (with Elliot Lipnowski).
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)
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
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Arizona. 2024 – present
Professor
Department of Economics, European University Institute. 2021 – 2024
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, New York University. 2013 – 2021
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin. 2008 – 2013