12 papers
Strategic Heterogeneity: Welfare Gains from Secession and Immigration
Mauro Bambi, Ehud Lehrer, Eilon Solan
This paper investigates the strategic and welfare properties of endogenous population partitioning (secession) within large-population anonymous games featuring strategic heterogen…
Adversarial Selection
Alma Cohen, Alon Klement, Zvika Neeman +1
In many institutional settings, items are selected with the goal of representing the underlying distribution of claims, opinions, or characteristics in a large population. We s…
About a ball removal process on bins
Jose Correa, José Correa, Marcos Kiwi +3
We consider a basic balls-and-bins question in which you have to distribute balls into bins. Then, round by round, a ball is removed from a non-empty bin chosen uniformly a…
The Design of Optimal Dependency and Rewards
Eilon Solan, Avraham Tabbach, Chang Zhao
We analyze a two-period principal-agent model in which the principal faces a budget constraint, and the agent's private costs of performing tasks across the two periods may be corr…
Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs
Jérôme Renault, Eilon Solan, Nicolas Vieille
We study a strategic experimentation game with exponential bandits, in which experiment outcomes are private. The equilibrium amount of experimentation is always higher than in the…
Undiscounted Equilibrium in Positive Recursive Absorbing Games with Non-Rectangular Absorption Structure
Eilon Solan, Nicolas Vieille
An absorbing game is a stochastic game with a single nonabsorbing state. Such a game is called recursive if all players receive a payoff of 0 in the nonabsorbing state, and positiv…