The economics of privacy

A Acquisti, C Taylor, L Wagman - Journal of economic Literature, 2016 - aeaweb.org
This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and
empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic value and …

Mechanism design in large games: Incentives and privacy

M Kearns, M Pai, A Roth, J Ullman - … of the 5th conference on Innovations …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We study the problem of implementing equilibria of complete information games in settings
of incomplete information, and address this problem using" recommender mechanisms." A …

Truthful mechanisms for agents that value privacy

Y Chen, S Chong, IA Kash, T Moran… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially
private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from truthfulness; it is not …

Privacy and mechanism design

MM Pai, A Roth - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2013 - dl.acm.org
This paper is a survey of recent work at the intersection of mechanism design and privacy.
The connection is a natural one, but its study has been jump-started in recent years by the …

Bayesian privacy

R Eilat, K Eliaz, X Mu - Theoretical Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modern information technologies make it possible to store, analyze, and trade
unprecedented amounts of detailed information about individuals. This has led to public …

Mechanism design and intentions

F Bierbrauer, N Netzer - Journal of Economic Theory, 2016 - Elsevier
We introduce intention-based social preferences into mechanism design. We explore
information structures that differ with respect to what is commonly known about the weight …

Crime, intimidation, and whistleblowing: A theory of inference from unverifiable reports

S Chassang, GPI Miquel - The Review of Economic Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We consider a game between a principal, an agent, and a monitor in which the principal
would like to rely on messages by the monitor (the potential whistleblower) to target …

Two-sided matching with endogenous preferences

Y Antler - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015 - aeaweb.org
We modify the stable matching problem by allowing agents' preferences to depend on the
endogenous actions of agents on the other side of the market. Conventional matching theory …

[HTML][HTML] Menu mechanisms

A Mackenzie, Y Zhou - Journal of Economic Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate menu mechanisms: dynamic mechanisms where at each history, an agent
selects from a menu of his possible assignments. We consider both ex-post implementation …

How social media can undermine democracy

R Gradwohl, Y Heller, A Hillman - European Journal of Political Economy, 2025 - Elsevier
We examine the influence a self-interested social-media platform can have on election
outcomes. Using the framework of the Condorcet Jury Theorem, we explore the effect of …