Trimester Program guests, who were invited and have confirmed to be at HIM during the period of this Conference, are eligible to attend this event without a separate application.
Researchers from the HCM, in particular, early-career researchers, are welcome upon request. Please contact the program coordinators, Emma Seggewiss and Kanami Ueda, whose email addresses are listed below.
Everyone will be notified in due time about whether participation and partial financial support (only for early career researchers) is possible. After being selected as participant, you will be invited to register.
Scientific Organizers:
- Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)
- Philipp Strack (Yale University)
Speakers:
- Cumin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
- David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)
- Mira Frick (Princeton University)
- Philippe Jehiel (Paris School of Economics)
- Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI)
- Collin Raymond (Collin Raymond)
- Uzi Segal (Boston College)
- Mengxi Zhang (University of Bonn)
*Further speakers will be announced soon.
Description:
The outcome of a mechanism is, from the perspective of an agent, uncertain ex-ante since the other agents’ types are unknown or the mechanism itself randomizes over outcomes. Most work on mechanism design assumes that agents maximize their expected utility when faced with uncertainty. There is, however, strong empirical evidence that expected utility theory does not explain agents’ behavior in common mechanism design settings well. This workshop aims to promote a more general theory for mechanism design without the expected utility hypothesis by combining the expertise on decision-making under uncertainty in the decision theory community with methods from mechanism design.