Pooya Molavi

Pooya Molavi is an Assistant Professor of Man agerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg, with a secondary appointment as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He was previously a Saieh Family Fellow in Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute of the University of Chicago. He conducts research in macroeconomics, economic theory, and behavioral economics. He received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 2019 and a PhD in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.

Publications

• A Theory of Non-Bayesian Social Learning (Online Appendix)
• with Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie, Econometrica, 2018
• Learning to Coordinate in Social Networks
• with Ceyhun Eksin, Alejandro Ribeiro, and Ali Jadbabaie, Operations Research, 2016
• Non-Bayesian Social Learning
• with Ali Jadbabaie, Alvaro Sandroni, and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Games and Economic Behavior, 2012

Working Papers

• Model Complexity, Expectations, and Asset Prices
• with Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Andrea Vedolin
• Macroeconomics with Learning and Misspecification: A General Theory and Applications
• A Theory of Dynamic Selection in the Labor Market
• Media Capture: A Bayesian Persuasion Approach
• with Arda Gitmez