Random Serial Dictatorship is (i) ex post Pareto efficient (ii) symmetric (as in Pycia and Troyan), (iii) truthful (outcome from truth-telling FOSD outcome from lying). Is RSD is the only mechanism satisfying these properties? As far as I know, this is an open question. (!!!)

Merry Xmas!To be honest,what he done on WC didn’t convince me completely …wait and see.

If you are 1) in you're in/around/interested in the Plurality community, 2) have a technical background in GFMs/LLMs especially related to alignment, 3) are available for a summer internship and 4) are in a degree program (ideally PhD), please reach out to [email protected]

Heavy workload crushes my schedule. And time is never enough. In this term, I better lay solid foundation for Microeconomic(nourish my intuition), Macroeconomic , calculus, and set hand on R and python. Nothing more.

I am saying principle. It is not what everyone agree with, but some people (a community) agree with, and are willing to live around it.

The mission of social science is creating uncertainty, or as Bismarck pointed out, “An art of probability ”. The best social scientist draft a contract and those who support it sign on it. In this sense, social science could just take off the cloth of “science”.

Honestly, I'm unsure what "theory" means in today's political science. Not to diminish its importance, it often appears as logical arguments or explanations derived from observations in fairly specific contexts.

(In a PhD app panel) R: Work life balance means you work hard now and you’ll have a life in the future. 💪 Makes prefect sense. What makes even more sense is to do what you genuinely love so you don’t need to strike any balance 😼

The 2023 NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting starts on Friday Oct 27 at 9am Eastern. All talks can be watched live on Youtube: youtube.com/nbervideos All info: nber.org/conferences/ma…

Very hard. Proud that I stand on my bottom line.

My mind goes blank when I review my 2023…

It's not too late to check out "Market Design JMC Profiles 2024" collected by Assaf Romm Ran Shorrer & myself. Eleven Econ/CS/OR profiles beautifully showcasing the frontiers of market design: sigecom.org/exchanges/volu… #EconTwitter

Signs of a recovering PPE student: 1. Narrowly avoids quoting Kant in review article on mechanism design. 2. Narrowly avoids using "ex nihilo" in the conclusion of applied micro paper.

The Interplay of Economics and Machine Learning Econ CS寄りの講義で、ゲーム理論と機械学習の学際分野についての話が多いです。 線形計画法やBandits アルゴリズム、線形計画法の基礎の他に、Bayesian persuasion や生成AIの経済学など色々と面白そうな内容があります。 haifeng-xu.com/cmsc35401win24…

"Could it be that our basic fondness for rational explanations makes us less critical of their surrounding rhetoric?" From the chapter "Rational X" in "The Curious Culture of Economic Theory" mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548229/…

My first paper！

Mark

Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.

Mark

I find this EC tutorial interesting！