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# Maria “Masha” Titova

Vanderbilt University Department of Economics  
VU Station B \#351819 ◇ 2301 Vanderbilt Place ◇ Nashville, TN 37235-1819  
[maria-titova.com](https://www.maria-titova.com/) ◇ [motitova@gmail.com](mailto:motitova@gmail.com)

*Updated: September 2026*

## Academic Appointments

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| Assistant Professor of Economics (primary) and Political Science (secondary) | 2021 – present |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*Vanderbilt University* | Nashville, TN |

## Education

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| Ph.D. in Economics | 2021 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*University of California San Diego* | La Jolla, CA |
| M.Sc. in Financial Economics | 2015 |
| B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Information Science | 2013 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*Higher School of Economics* | Moscow, Russia |

## Fields of Interest

Political Economy, Information and Learning, Microeconomic Theory

## Working Papers

- **[Revealed and Concealed Repression: Theory and Measurement](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16997)** with Nathan Canen, Emily Hencken Ritter and Mehdi Shadmehr  
  Revision requested by the *American Political Science Review*
- **[Withholding Verifiable Information](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09918)** with Denis Shishkin and Kun Zhang  
  Revision requested by *Theoretical Economics*
- **[Coalition-Proof Disclosure](https://maria-titova.com/papers/CPD.pdf)** with Germán Gieczewski

## Publications

- **[Targeted Advertising in Elections](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20240479)**  
  *American Economic Journal: Microeconomics*, Forthcoming, 2026
- **[Persuasion with Verifiable Information](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2025.106102)** with Kun Zhang  
  *Journal of Economic Theory*, 230, 106102, 2025
- **[Shopping Malls, Platforms and Consumer Search](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2018.02.004)** with Alexei Parakhonyak  
  *International Journal of Industrial Organization*, vol. 58, 2018, pp. 183–213

## 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

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| 2026 | Gerzensee |
| 2025 | OrgPol (Snowbird, UT), Penn |
| 2024 | Penn State, Montréal Workshop in Misinformation, QMUL/City Workshop in Economic Theory, Wallis |
| 2023 | 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 |
| 2022 | Stanford GSB, CMU/Pittsburgh, CERGE-EI, CEU, Linz, Bilkent, VSET, SIOE |
| 2021 | University of Amsterdam, University of Manchester, Berlin School of Economics, CREST, Vanderbilt, Network Science and Economics, CIDE, SIOE, PolNetworks, SITE, Princeton |
| 2020 | CSQIEP, Bern, UC San Diego |
| 2019 | Young Economists Symposium, Economics Graduate Student Conference, UC San Diego |
| 2018 | SWET, UC San Diego |
| 2017 | Psychological Game Theory Ph.D. Summer School (Norwich, UK), UC San Diego |

## Conference Organization

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| 2026 | ESSET “Narratives,” Gerzensee (with Joel Sobel and Mirko Wiederholt) |
| 2025 | SITE Political Economic Theory, Stanford |
| 2022 | 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

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| **Vanderbilt University** | Nashville, TN |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*Instructor* | |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Econ 8000: Economics Ph.D. Math Camp \[[lecture notes](https://maria-titova.com/courses/mathcamp)\] | Fall ’22, ’23, ’25 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Econ 4230 / Psci 3400: Political Economy of Elections \[[course website](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections)\] | Spring ’22–’24, ’26 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Econ 3012: Intermediate Microeconomics | Fall ’21 |

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| **University of California San Diego** | La Jolla, CA |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*Instructor* | |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Econ 1: Introductory Microeconomics | Summer 2020 (remote) |

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| **Higher School of Economics** | Moscow, Russia |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*Co-Instructor (with Alexis Belianin)* | |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Game Theory for Political Scientists (Graduate) | Winter 2015 |

## Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

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| 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 |

## Skills and Languages

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| Languages: | fluent English, native Russian |
| Programming: | proficient in Python and MATLAB |

## Professional Development

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| **Python Debugging: A Systematic Approach**, University of Michigan | Sep 2026 |
| **Fundamentals of Machine Learning in Finance**, Coursera | Mar 2020 |
| **Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance**, Coursera | Mar 2020 |
| **Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I**, CFA Institute | Dec 2012 |