星空online(中国)新人权益 - 星空online(中国)

Abstract

We study a screening problem in which an agent privately knows which actions or technologies are feasible and can disclose only a subset to a principal. Once disclosed, feasible options are verifiable and their payoff consequences are publicly known, so private information concerns feasibility rather than payoffs; misreporting restricts the principal’s choices directly rather than distorting her beliefs.

Assuming feasible sets are ordered by inclusion, we establish a simple characterization of the optimal mechanism, where the principal either behaves as if there is no asymmetric information or locally provides no reward for better proposals. We derive comparative statics and illustrate the framework in applications to managing persuasion, action elicitation, and production-technology elicitation.

This talk is based on joint work with Tan Gan from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Time

2026-06-03 10:00 - 11:00

Speaker

Yingkai Li, National University of Singapore

Room

Room 104