The economics of social data

D Bergemann, A Bonatti, T Gan - The RAND Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A data intermediary acquires signals from individual consumers regarding their preferences.
The intermediary resells the information in a product market wherein firms and consumers …

Estimation of discrete games with weak assumptions on information

L Magnolfi, C Roncoroni - The Review of Economic Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We propose a method to estimate static discrete games with weak assumptions on the
information available to players. We do not fully specify the information structure of the game …

Counterfactuals with latent information

D Bergemann, B Brooks, S Morris - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We describe a methodology for making counterfactual predictions in settings where the
information held by strategic agents and the distribution of payoff-relevant states of the world …

Stable outcomes and information in games: An empirical framework

PS Koh - Journal of Econometrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Empirically, many strategic settings are characterized by stable outcomes in which players'
decisions are publicly observed, yet no player takes the opportunity to deviate. To analyze …

Estimation of games under no regret

N Lomys, L Magnolfi - Available at SSRN 4269273, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We develop a method to estimate a game's primitives in complex dynamic environments.
Because of the environment's complexity, agents may not know or understand some key …

Identification in Search Models with Social Information

N Lomys, E Tarantino - Available at SSRN 4288045, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We theoretically study the problem of a researcher seeking to identify and estimate the
search cost distribution when a share of agents in the population observes some peers' …

Essays in Industrial Organization

K Hara - 2024 - repository.arizona.edu
This dissertation studies environmental and health policy-relevant issues using cutting-edge
applied microeconomic, especially industrial organization, tools and related econometric …

[PDF][PDF] Bridging the Gap: Information, Returns and Choices

N Kunievsky - 2023 - nkunievsky.github.io
How much of the gap in choices across social groups is driven by differences in returns or
the ability to predict these returns? To formalize this question, we use a decomposition …

Estimating Dynamic Games with Unknown Information Structure

PS Koh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03706, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper studies identification and estimation of dynamic games when the underlying
information structure is unknown to the researcher. To tractably characterize the set of model …

[PDF][PDF] It's Not Who You Are, It's What They Know: Wage Gaps and Informational Frictions

N Kunievsky - 2023 - nkunievsky.github.io
Can informational asymmetries among firms account for all observed wage gaps across
social groups? We confirm this through a parsimonious common-value auction model in the …