Steven Kivinen
stevenkivinen.bsky.social
Steven Kivinen
@stevenkivinen.bsky.social
Economics and game theory. University of Graz.

https://sites.google.com/site/stevenkivinen/
And here is the final version. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just watched Insomnia, and wow. Is it Nolan's best movie?
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Sometimes you plan to spend the night exploring some econ theory, but the baby gets a new tooth and takes really long to sleep. And when it's all over you really just need to revisit Bowie's Berlin Trilogy.
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I have posted an updated draft of my paper "Robust Group Manipulation with Indifferences." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Robust Group Manipulation with Indifferences
We define two belief-free notions of coalitional non-manipulability that rule out coalitions in which some agents are indifferent. Strong robust group strategyp
papers.ssrn.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I will be presenting the updated draft of my paper "Renegotiation-Proof Cheap Talk" (with @ckuzmics.bsky.social) at SAET next week. (Link to paper below.)
June 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Kenneth O. May led a much more interesting life than I realized. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth...
Kenneth O. May - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reposted by Steven Kivinen
"Is it possible to identify one's probabilistic beliefs about an event when they care about the event itself? Can we measure a partisan voter’s beliefs about their preferred candidate winning the election or a wife’s beliefs about her husband recovering from disease?" 1/2

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April 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Great paper.
Economic theory to the rescue.
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I mainly came to Bluesky for the econtwitter. But I rarely see any now. Very low level of activity. What’s going on?
April 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Steven Kivinen
People make different kinds of contributions to the social sciences — mathematical, theoretical, empirical, historical and others. Indeed, formal mathematical models have been very valuable as has careful institutional and historical insight. Social science has room for it all.
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just got an email from a journal. A “Call for Reading.” Lol.
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Steven Kivinen
For object assignment without monetary transfers, Random Serial Dictatorship was long conjectured to be the only strategy-proof, ex post efficient & symmetric rule. We show that it is not. Further, we investigate when it cannot be Pareto-dominated ex ante. www.econometricsociety.org/publications...
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If you’re anti-due process then you’re anti-liberty.
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today's cool paper.
On 64%-Majority Rule on JSTOR
Andrew Caplin, Barry Nalebuff, On 64%-Majority Rule, Econometrica, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Jul., 1988), pp. 787-814
www.jstor.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Eric Maskin is giving the Schumpeter Lectures here in Graz next week. I'm really looking forward to them!

schumpeter-centre.uni-graz.at/de/graz-schu...
Neueste Schumpeter Lecture - Graz Schumpeter Centre
Hier finden Sie alle Informationen zu den neuesten Schumpeter Lectures des Schumpeter Centre des Graz Schumpeter Centres.
schumpeter-centre.uni-graz.at
March 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think there’s a chance that some social media, X in particular, is banned in Canada at some point. Maybe it won’t be, but I bet the discussions are being had. Some content in my feed is borderline treasonous, and if this conflict escalates some action will be taken.
March 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Reposted by Steven Kivinen
"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
But POTUS said this. Many times! He calls the PM Governor. And he hasn’t given any other reason (except the obviously false drug story). So why would we do gymnastics to come up with another reason?
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Trudeau has done a lot to improve his legacy the past 2 months.
March 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I fly enough to know that you have to have somewhat low expectations regarding customer service and timeliness. But watching my mother try to get to Europe on @aircananda.bsky.social is another level. Disgraceful.
February 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's my first time in Istanbul. Any suggestions for fun things to do?
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Steven Kivinen
Ahead of tonight’s episode. The Traitors offers a great lesson in game theory and also why game theory fails to describe actual behaviour.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
January 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM