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Workshop: The Economics of Strategic Communication and Persuasion

CIRANO

From Friday 16 Nov 2018 at 1PM
To Saturday 17 Nov 2018 at 12:45PM

Organized by CIRANO, CIREQ, the John Deutsch Institute and the Dean of Arts Development Fund (McGill University)

 

Organizers: Ming Li (Concordia University, CIREQ, CIRANO), Chris Cotton (Queen’s University), Jian Li (McGill University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, CIREQ), Arianna Degan (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Huan Xie (Concordia University, CIREQ, CIRANO)


This was the second Workshop on the Economics of Strategic Communication and Persuasion. When there is a divergence between information and decision-making power in social and economic environments, the informed party may, through a variety of channels and methods, convey information to the uninformed party, so as to influence the latter’s decision. It is important to study the limits and potentials of communication and persuasion, as well as ways to enhance them so as to improve information transmission and decision-making. There are a number of academic disciplines that analyze these questions, economics among them. This year’s program was multidisciplinary and included both theory and applications. A special focus was on the exploration of applications to the enhancement of evidence-based public-policy making.

Jean Guillaume Forand

Jean Guillaume Forand is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Unviersity of Waterloo.

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Tibor Heumann

Tibor Heumann is Assistant Professorin the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal.

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Junichiro Ishida

Joel Sobel is Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

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Maxim Ivanov

Maxim Ivanov is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University.

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Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim

Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim is Professor at the University of Miami.

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Nicolas Klein

Nicolas Klein is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal.

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Jian Li

Jian Li is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University.

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Dipjyoti Majumdar

Dipjyoti Majumdar is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Concordia University.

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Peter Norman

Peter Norman is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Di (Harry) Pei

Di (Harry) Pei is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Northwestern University.

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Ludovic Renou

Ludovic Renou is Professor at Queen Mary University of London.

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Nicolas Sahuguet

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2015, Nicolas Sahuguet is Full Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal. He is also Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, his interests are industrial organization, auction theory and political economics.

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Joel Sobel

Joel Sobel is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

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Adrian Vetta

Adrian Vetta is Professor at McGill University.

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Huan Xie

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2008, Huan Xie is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Concordia University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, she specializes in microeconomics, experimental economics, game theory and public finance.

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Haifeng Xu

Haifeng Xu is Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

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Program

Friday, November 16
13:00 - 13:30
Registration
Friday, November 16
13:30 - 14:30
Keynote Speech: Joel Sobel (University of California, San Diego)
Joel Sobel
Friday, November 16
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
Friday, November 16
15:00 - 15:50
Strategic abuse and accuser credibility
Di (Harry) Pei, Jean Guillaume Forand, Huan Xie
Friday, November 16
15:50 - 16:40
Relational contracts with private information on the future value of the relationship: The upside of implicit downsizing costs
Nicolas Klein, Junichiro Ishida, Huan Xie
Friday, November 16
16:40 - 17:00
Break
Friday, November 16
17:00 - 18:00
Roundtable discussion on evidence-based public policy
Chris Cotton, Junichiro Ishida, Nicolas Sahuguet, Joel Sobel, Adrian Vetta
Saturday, November 17
8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
Saturday, November 17
9:00 - 9:50
Algorithmic persuasion with no externalities
Haifeng Xu, Adrian Vetta, Nicolas Sahuguet
Saturday, November 17
9:50 - 10:40
Ambiguous persuasion
Jian Li, Maxim Ivanov, Nicolas Sahuguet
Saturday, November 17
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee break
Saturday, November 17
11:00 - 11:50
Information design in multi-stage games
Ludovic Renou, Peter Norman, Dipjyoti Majumdar
Saturday, November 17
11:50 - 12:40
Competitive advertising and pricing
Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim, Tibor Heumann, Dipjyoti Majumdar

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada