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Mengxi Sun

Ph.D. Student
University of Pittsburgh
mengxisun (at) pitt.edu


Hello!

I am a 6th-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I am primarily interested in Information Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Game Theory. My research scrutinizes the impact of limited knowledge or control over the information environment on communication and learning.

I am on the 2024-2025 job market and available for interviews.

Working Paper

  1. Misinterpreted Persuasion
    presented at EGSC (as "Bayesian Persuasion with Confirmation Bias"), poster sessions at the PETCO and PEM.
    PDF JMP

Other Projects

  1. Keyphrase Generation on News Articles
    with Eric Zhou
    POSTER

  2. Audience Costs of Insurgency: Civilian Casualties and Tolerance for Reintegration
    Master's thesis at UChicago Harris

Work in progress

  1. Using Models to Cheap Talk

  2. Learning from Other Worldviews

Activities

Conference Presentations:

17th Economics Graduate Student Conference at WashU (2022), 34th Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory (2023), 2024 ESA North America Meeting

Summer Program Participation:

Asian School in Economic Theory (2023), RSF Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics (2024)

Teaching

Instructor:

  • Game Theory (Calculus-based) (Summer 2023) Syllabus Evaluatations

    • TA:

  • Intro to Microeconomics (Fall 2022)
  • Intro to Macroeconomics (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Economic Data Analysis (Spring 2020)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (Spring 2023)
  • Intermediate Macroeconomics(Fall 2021)
  • Game Theory (Calculus-based) (Spring 2022)
  • Advanced Microeconomics for Policy Analysis I (Ph.D. level at UChicago Harris) (Fall 2018)