Scoring strategic agents

I Ball - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2025 - pubs.aeaweb.org
I introduce a model of predictive scoring. A receiver wants to predict a sender's quality. An
intermediary observes multiple features of the sender and aggregates them into a score …

Improving information from manipulable data

A Frankel, N Kartik - Journal of the European Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Data-based decision making must account for the manipulation of data by agents who are
aware of how decisions are being made and want to affect their allocations. We study a …

Information transmission in voluntary disclosure games

A Lichtig, R Weksler - Journal of Economic Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
Does a better-informed sender transmit more accurate information in equilibrium? We show
that, in a general class of voluntary disclosure games, unlike other strategic communication …

Informative tests in signaling environments

R Weksler, B Zik - Theoretical Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study a receiver's learning problem of choosing an informative test in a signaling
environment. Each test induces a signaling subgame. Thus, in addition to its direct effect on …

Signaling With Commitment

R Boleslavsky, M Shadmehr - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00777, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the canonical signaling game, endowing the sender with commitment power:
before learning the state, sender designs a strategy, which maps the state into a probability …

Gaming a selective admissions system

FX Lee, W Suen - International Economic Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A university uses both early‐stage selection outcome (high‐school affiliation) and late‐stage
admission test outcome (standardized test scores) to select students. We use this model to …

[PDF][PDF] Strategic ignorance and information design

I Taneva, T Wiseman - Available at SSRN 3997926, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly commit to not
view their private signals. Ignoring the constraints that agents must be willing to view their …

When less is more: Information and the financing of innovation

JE de Bettignies, J Ries - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of informational frictions when the entrepreneur anticipates
having little or no bargaining power in negotiating with the financier and can select ex ante …

Strategic inattention in the Sir Philip Sidney game

M Whitmeyer - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Infamously, the presence of honest communication in a signaling environment may be
difficult to reconcile with small (relative) signaling costs or a low degree of common interest …

[HTML][HTML] Only time will tell: Credible dynamic signaling

E Starkov - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper characterizes informational outcomes in a model of dynamic signaling with
vanishing commitment power. It shows that contrary to popular belief, informative equilibria …