【Micro Seminar】Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition
2025/09/11
研討會日期 : 2025-09-11
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Barton Lipman
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Yi-Hsuan Lin
演講者簡介 : Professor Barton Lipman received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1985. He is currently a Professor at Boston University. His research interests are Decision Theory and Economic Theory.
演講摘要 : We consider optimal mechanisms for inducing agents to acquire costly evidence in a setting where a principal has a good to allocate that all agents want. We show that optimal mechanisms are necessarily sequential in nature and have a threshold structure. Agents with higher costs of obtaining evidence and/or worse distributions of value for the principal are asked for evidence later, if at all. We derive these results in part by exploiting the relationship between the Lagrangian for this problem and the classic Weitzman (1979) "Pandora's box" problem.
