讲座:Information Design for Social Learning with Patient Agents 发布时间:2026-10-20
嘉 宾: 吕 辰 助理教授,北京大学汇丰商学院
主持人: 闵炜程 副教授, 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院
时 间: 2026年 10月28日(周三) 下午14:00-15:30
地 点: 上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A503
内容简介:Agents arriving sequentially may adopt a new technology. Early adoption reveals information about its value, but individuals tend to wait and free-ride on information generated by others. Facing this challenge, we study how a designer—who controls the public release of past information—can improve social learning efficiency. The optimal design follows a threshold stopping rule, which keeps recommending adoption until the designer’s belief becomes more pessimistic than a time-varying threshold. This threshold typically starts above the first-best threshold, drops below it in some later periods, and eventually returns to it. Meanwhile, public information flow is restrained by over-recommending adoption, but not by under-recommending. We also examine special cases of conclusive-news learning. In good-news environments, the optimal design terminates exploration in a random manner; in bad-news environments, adoption may continue even after bad news arrives.
演讲人简介:吕辰现为北京大学汇丰商学院助理教授。主要从事信息经济学相关的应用微观理论研究,重点关注信息设计及其在产业组织、平台推荐等方面的应用。现有两篇研究成果发表于Journal of Economic Theory。


