Maria Titova
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Maria “Masha” Titova

Vanderbilt University Department of Economics

VU Station B #351819 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235-1819

motitova@gmail.com

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Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Economics (primary) and Political Science (secondary) 2021 – present
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

Education

Ph.D. in Economics
University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA
M.Sc. in Financial Economics
B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Information Science
Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Fields of Interest

Political Economy, Information and Learning, Microeconomic Theory

Working Papers

Publications

Work in Progress

  • Manufactured Grievances and Regime Survival with Germán Gieczewski
  • Political Messaging and Voter Learning with Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz, Santiago Cantillo-Cleves and Yung-Chun Chen

Invited Talks

Gerzensee
OrgPol (Snowbird, UT), Penn
Penn State, Montréal Workshop in Misinformation, QMUL/City Workshop in Economic Theory, Wallis
NBER Political Economy, LSE, Warwick, Essex, NYU, Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill, UC Riverside, Glasgow, SAET, MPSA, Berlin Workshop in Verifiability on Mechanism and Information Design
Stanford GSB, CMU/Pittsburgh, CERGE-EI, CEU, Linz, Bilkent, VSET, SIOE
University of Amsterdam, University of Manchester, Berlin School of Economics, CREST, Vanderbilt, Network Science and Economics, CIDE, SIOE, PolNetworks, SITE, Princeton
CSQIEP, Bern, UC San Diego
Young Economists Symposium, Economics Graduate Student Conference, UC San Diego
SWET, UC San Diego
Psychological Game Theory Ph.D. Summer School (Norwich, UK), UC San Diego

Conference Organization

ESSET “Narratives,” Gerzensee (with Joel Sobel and Mirko Wiederholt)
SITE Political Economic Theory, Stanford
Learning in Political Economy, 33rd Stony Brook Conference on Game Theory

Referee Service

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (x1), AER: Insights (x3), American Journal of Political Science (x1), Econometrica (x1), Economic Journal (x2), Economic Theory (x3), Games and Economic Behavior (x5), International Economic Review (x3), International Journal of Game Theory (x1), Journal of Economic Theory (x1), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (x2), Journal of Political Economy (x1), Journal of Politics (x2), Journal of Public Economics (x1), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (x1), Review of Economic Studies (x1), Social Choice and Welfare (x3), Theoretical Economics (x1)

Teaching Experience

Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Instructor
  • Econ 8000: Economics Ph.D. Math Camp [lecture notes] Fall ’22, ’23, ’25
  • Econ 4230 / Psci 3400: Political Economy of Elections [course website] Spring ’22–’24, ’26
  • Econ 3012: Intermediate Microeconomics Fall ’21
University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA
Instructor
  • Econ 1: Introductory Microeconomics Summer 2020 (remote)
Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia
Co-Instructor (with Alexis Belianin)
  • Game Theory for Political Scientists (Graduate) Winter 2015

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

UC San Diego Clive Granger Research Fellowship Prize 2020
UC San Diego Best Undergraduate Teaching by an Associate-In 2020
UC San Diego Summer Graduate Teaching Scholar 2020
UC San Diego Economics Department Candidate of Philosophy Fellowship 2019
UC San Diego International Travel Grant 2017, 2019
UC San Diego Graduate Summer Research Fellowship 2016, 2017
UC San Diego Regents Fellowship 2015 – 2018

Other Information

Languages:fluent English, native Russian
Programming:proficient in Python and MATLAB
Certifications:CFA Level I (December 2012)