Antonella Ianni

Economic Theory · Game Theory and Evolution · Networks · Learning

Theory. Evidence. Questions that Matter.

Recent Work

On the Heresthetics of Salience: Competing over Voters Attention

Working paper, 2026

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Emotional Peer Effects in Online Eating Disordered Communities

Working paper, 2025

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Anticipating Futures: Understanding the Importance of Narratives

Working paper, 2024

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Polarization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Work in progress, 2026

Partisan Lockdown Policy and the Salience of Health

Work in progress, 2026

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Current Projects

How do people decide what matters to them?
My current research investigates attention, salience and collective decision-making.

What determines electoral outcomes, policies, or the criteria by which policies are evaluated?
My current research investigates heresthetics (i.e., engineering voters attention).

Will AI bring societies closer together - or drive them further apart?
My current research in progress studies belief formation and ambiguity in AI-mediated environments.

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Current Activity

I currently teach Undergraduate and MSc courses in Finance and in Financial Economics.

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I am the Director of PGT Programmes in Economics. (MSc in Economics, MSc in Finance and Economics, MRes in Economics)

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I am currently supervising a PhD student who is working on Strategic Voting.

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Past & Future

Curriculum vitae and contact details.

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I will be the Programme Chair of the 2027 Royal Economic Society Conference.

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