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Keynote presentation - Robust Implementation with Costly Information - Harry Pei

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Room: CBE LT2
Thursday, June 29, 2023
11:30 AM - 12:25 PM

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MECHANISM DESIGN - APPLICATIONS I Convenor: Larry Samuelson


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Associate Professor Harry Pei
Northwestern University

Robust Implementation with Costly Information

Abstract

We design mechanisms that robustly implement any desired social choice function when (i) agents must incur a cost to learn the state of the world, (ii) with small probability, agents' preferences can be arbitrarily different from some baseline known to the social planner, and (iii) the planner does not know agents' beliefs and higher-order beliefs about one another's preferences. The mechanisms we propose have a natural interpretation, and are robust to trembles in agents' reporting strategies, to the introduction of a small amount of noise affecting agents' signals about the state, and to uncertainty concerning the state distribution and agents' prior beliefs about the state. We also establish impossibility results for stronger notions of robust implementation.

Biography

Associate Professor Harry Pei is Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. His research interests include Game Theory, Monotone Methods, Political Economy, Law and Economics, and Organizational Economics. Harry earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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