Abstract

Information has become integral to decision making in this digital era. This gives rise to a timely and explosive research topic on information design, which studies how a more informed party can strategically influence downstream agents’ behaviors through selective provision of information. This talk will discuss a few recent advances on the algorithmics of information design, including the pricing of information (i.e., information design with transfers), information design in sequential decision making problems such as Pandora’s box, and the interplay of information design with contract design. Many of these problems are new and quite rich. A key goal of this talk is to foster collaborative discussions thus multiple open problems along each line will be discussed.  

Time

2023-09-12  10:00 - 11:00   

Speaker

Haifeng Xu, University of Chicago

Room

Room 602