# Maria Titova

> Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Economic theorist working on information, persuasion, elections, and political economy.

This site lists Maria Titova's research papers (with abstracts, PDFs, and for some the full text as HTML and Markdown with LaTeX math), teaching, and full lecture notes. Every HTML page has a Markdown twin at the same path with a `.md` suffix; the same URL also returns Markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`. Contact: motitova@gmail.com.

- [Structured researcher profile](https://maria-titova.com/profile.jsonld): identity, affiliation, research topics, CV, contact, and external profiles
- [CV (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/cv.md): appointments, education, publications, and service
- [Coalition-Proof Disclosure: Lean 4 formalization](https://github.com/maria-titova/lean-CPD): source code accompanying the [paper](https://maria-titova.com/papers/CPD.md); [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15087)

## Research

- [Publications (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/publications.md): every paper with authors, status, abstract, and links
- [Publications (JSON)](https://maria-titova.com/publications.json): the same list as structured data
- [Publications (BibTeX)](https://maria-titova.com/publications.bib): citation entries for every paper
- [Research full text (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/research-full.md): all available paper texts in one file; individual paper links follow

### Published Work

- [Targeted Advertising in Elections](https://maria-titova.com/papers/TA-elections.md): Maria Titova. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming, 2026 (full text)
- [Persuasion with Verifiable Information](https://maria-titova.com/papers/PVI.md): Maria Titova, Kun Zhang. Journal of Economic Theory, 230, 106102, 2025 (full text)
- [Shopping Malls, Platforms and Consumer Search](https://maria-titova.com/papers/shopping-malls.md): Alexei Parakhonyak, Maria Titova. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 58, 183–213, 2018 (full text)

### Working Papers

- [Revealed and Concealed Repression: Theory and Measurement](https://maria-titova.com/papers/reveal-conceal.md): Maria Titova, Nathan Canen, Emily Hencken Ritter, Mehdi Shadmehr. Revision requested by the American Political Science Review (full text)
- [Withholding Verifiable Information](https://maria-titova.com/papers/WVI.md): Denis Shishkin, Maria Titova, Kun Zhang. Revision requested by Theoretical Economics (full text)
- [Coalition-Proof Disclosure](https://maria-titova.com/papers/CPD.md): Germán Gieczewski, Maria Titova. Latest draft: October 2026 (full text)

### Work in Progress

- [Manufactured Grievances and Regime Survival](https://maria-titova.com/publications.md): Germán Gieczewski, Maria Titova
- [Political Messaging and Voter Learning](https://maria-titova.com/publications.md): Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz, Santiago Cantillo-Cleves, Yung-Chun Chen, Maria Titova

## Teaching

- [Political Economy of Elections (ECON 4230 / PSCI 3400)](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections.md): Vanderbilt University, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026
- [Economics Ph.D. Math Camp (ECON 8000)](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp.md): Vanderbilt University, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2025, Fall 2026
- [Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (ECON 3012)](https://maria-titova.com/teaching/syllabus-Econ3012-Fall2021.pdf): Vanderbilt University, Fall 2021, Spring 2027
- [Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 1)](https://maria-titova.com/teaching/syllabus-Econ1-SS12020.pdf): University of California, San Diego, Summer 2020
- [Game Theory for Political Scientists](https://maria-titova.com/teaching/syllabus-GTforPS-2014.pdf): Higher School of Economics, Winter 2014

### Lecture notes: Math Camp

- [1. Lecture 1: Sets, Functions, Logic, and Proofs](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/01-language-logic-proof.md)
- [2. Lecture 2: Real Analysis in ℝⁿ](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/02-analysis-for-existence.md)
- [3. Lecture 3: Linear Algebra](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/03-linear-algebra.md)
- [4. Lecture 4: Differential Calculus](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/04-differential-calculus.md)
- [5. Lecture 5: Curvature, Convexity, and Separation](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/05-curvature-convexity-separation.md)
- [6. Lecture 6: General Optimization](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/06-general-optimization.md)
- [7. Lecture 7: Constrained Optimization](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/07-constrained-optimization.md)
- [8. Lecture 8: Comparative Statics, Envelopes, and Fixed Points](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/08-comparative-statics-envelopes.md)
- [9. Lecture 9: Dynamic Programming and the Bellman Equation](https://maria-titova.com/courses/math-camp/09-dynamic-programming.md)

### Lecture notes: Political Economy of Elections

- [1. Course Overview and Decision Theory](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/01-course-overview-decision-theory.md)
- [2. Social Choice Theory: Setup and Aggregation Rules](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/02-social-choice-setup.md)
- [3. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/03-arrows-impossibility-theorem.md)
- [4. Median Voter Theorem](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/04-median-voter-theorem.md)
- [5. Static Games and Nash Equilibrium](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/05-static-games-nash-equilibrium.md)
- [6. Game Theory: Continued Examples and Algorithm](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/06-game-theory-continued.md)
- [7. Electoral Competition: Office-Motivated Candidates](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/07-electoral-competition-downsian.md)
- [8. Electoral Competition: Policy-Motivated Candidates](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/08-policy-motivated-candidates.md)
- [9. Electoral Competition: Uncertainty and Polarization](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/09-uncertainty-polarization.md)
- [10. Information Aggregation: Bayesian Updating](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/10-information-aggregation-bayesian-updating.md)
- [11. Juror's Optimal Action and Following the Signal](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/11-juror-optimal-action.md)
- [12. Probability of Correct Decision: Single Juror](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/12-probability-correct-decision.md)
- [13. Condorcet Jury Theorem](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/13-condorcet-jury-theorem.md)
- [14. From Juries to Elections: Voting Rules and Error Tradeoffs](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/14-juries-to-elections-voting-rules.md)
- [15. Strategic Voting and the Swing Voter's Curse](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/15-strategic-voting-unanimity.md)
- [16. Political Persuasion: Model Setup](https://maria-titova.com/courses/political-economy-elections/16-political-persuasion-setup.md)

## About

- [About (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/about.md): bio and career timeline
- [Research (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/research.md): publications, working papers, and work in progress
- [Teaching (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/teaching.md): courses and teaching materials
- [CV page](https://maria-titova.com/cv): complete curriculum vitae in the website layout
- [CV (Markdown)](https://maria-titova.com/cv.md): machine-readable curriculum vitae
- [CV (PDF)](https://maria-titova.com/CV_titova.pdf)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/maria-titova)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qo74LOsAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/motitova/)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6166-487X)
- [IDEAS/RePEc](https://ideas.repec.org/f/pti341.html)
- [Vanderbilt](https://as.vanderbilt.edu/economics/bio/maria-titova/)

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://maria-titova.com/llms-full.txt): bio, CV, research abstracts, all available full paper texts, and every lecture in one file
- [Sitemap](https://maria-titova.com/sitemap.xml)