Eliciting Higher-Order Beliefs Under Proper Higher-Order Rationality
| Mathematical Conversations | |
| Topic: | Eliciting Higher-Order Beliefs Under Proper Higher-Order Rationality |
| Speaker: | Jing Chen |
| Affiliation: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics |
| Date: | Friday, November 30 |
| Time/Room: | 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room |
Higher-order beliefs are of great importance in reasoning about agents strategic behavior, and have been long studied in epistemic game theory. Yet it was unclear whether eliciting such beliefs from the agents can help a social planner to better achieve his goal, and if so then how. Using single-good auctions as an example, Ill show that doing so indeed helps, and the information that can be elicited tightly rely on the agents higher-order
rationality: the more rational they are, the more information the social planner can elicit.