4 papers
Causal Persuasion
Anastasia Burkovskaya, Egor Starkov
We propose a model of causal persuasion, in which a sender selectively discloses a set of variables together with their true joint distribution and proposes a subjective causal mod…
Strategic Attribute Learning
Jean-Michel Benkert, Ludmila Matyskova, Egor Starkov
A researcher allocates a budget of informative tests across multiple unknown attributes to influence a decision-maker. We derive the researcher's equilibrium learning strategy by s…
Optimally Biased Expertise
Pavel Ilinov, Andrei Matveenko, Maxim Senkov +1
We show that in delegation problems, a principal benefits from belief misalignment vis-Ã -vis an agent when the latter can flexibly acquire costly information. The agent optimally…
Designing Social Learning
Aleksei Smirnov, Egor Starkov
This paper studies strategic communication in the context of social learning. Product reviews are used by consumers to learn product quality, but in order to write a review, a cons…