Navin Kartik

Navin Kartik is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on strategic communication, information design, electoral competition, mechanism design, and behavioral economics. He has contributed to theories of cheap talk, Bayesian updating, and social learning, with applications to political economy and market mechanisms.

His recent work examines test-optional admissions policies (2025), information revelation in elections (2019–2025), and the interplay between preferences and information in learning environments (2024). Kartik has collaborated with leading scholars such as Alex Frankel, Andreas Kleiner, and Richard Van Weelden, producing influential papers on veto bargaining (2023), convex choice environments (2024), and optimal contracts for experimentation (2016).

His publications appear in top journals like American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies. Kartik teaches graduate-level microeconomic theory (GR6212) and has advised PhD students in game theory and political economy.