6 papers
Decision theory and the "almost implies near" phenomenon
Christopher P Chambers, Federico Echenique
We examine behavioral axioms in decision theory that are satisfied approximately rather than exactly. We demonstrate that in key domains -- decisions under risk, uncertainty, and i…
To ArXiv or not to ArXiv: A Study Quantifying Pros and Cons of Posting Preprints Online
Charvi Rastogi, Ivan Stelmakh, Xinwei Shen +4
Double-blind conferences have engaged in debates over whether to allow authors to post their papers online on arXiv or elsewhere during the review process. Independently, some auth…
Rationally Inattentive Statistical Discrimination: Arrow Meets Phelps
Federico Echenique, Anqi Li
When information acquisition is costly but flexible, a principal may rationally acquire information that favors one group over another. The former group faces incentives to invest…
Empirical Welfare Economics
Christopher P Chambers, Federico Echenique
Welfare economics relies on access to agents' utility functions: we revisit classical questions in welfare economics, assuming access to data on agents' past choices instead of the…
Binary Mechanisms under Privacy-Preserving Noise
Farzad Pourbabaee, Federico Echenique
We study mechanism design for public-good provision under a noisy privacy-preserving transformation of individual agents' reported preferences. The setting is a standard binary mod…
Manipulation of Belief Aggregation Rules
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique, Takashi Hayashi
This paper studies manipulation of belief aggregation rules in the setting where the society first collects individual's probabilistic opinions and then solves a public portfolio c…