Essays on Microeconomic Theory
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Essays on Microeconomic Theory
Yazar:
Clark, Alexander, author.
ISBN:
9780438019348
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1 electronic resource (129 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Antonio Penta Committee members: Erwan Quintin; Marzena Rostek; William Sandholm.
Özet:
This dissertation includes two chapters, and each studies how people can influence others' actions, via cheap talk recommendations of through the exertion of social pressure. In the first chapter, I examine a game like the following: an informed high school wishes to convince the uninformed college to accept as many of the high school's students as they can, with no evidence available for relevant attributes like personal qualities. More generally, an uninformed receiver must accept or reject many propositions, and an informed sender wishes to convince the receiver to accept as many as possible, using only cheap talk messages. I provide a necessary and sufficient condition for when communication can be influential, and characterize a simple class of equilibria where the sender recommends a fixed number of propositions, all of which are accepted by the receiver, in every state. This kind of equilibrium can be receiver-optimal, providing a justification for the use of capacities in settings without actual constraints on the number of acceptances. In the second chapter, we develop a model in which costly voting in a large election is a sequentially rational choice of strategic, self-interested players who can reward fellow voters by forming stronger ties in a network formation coordination game. The predictions match a variety of stylized facts, including explaining why an individual's voting behavior may depend on what she knows about her friends' actions. Players have imperfect information about others' voting behavior, and we find that some degree of privacy may actually be necessary for voting in equilibrium, enabling hypocritical but useful social pressure. Our framework applies to any costly prosocial behavior.
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School code: 0262
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