Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS)

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Teias Short Course

Information Design

Lecture by Dr. Saman Darougheh

Overview: 

 

Information design studies information disclosure policies and their effects on the payoffs of senders and receivers of information. In this short course, we provide an overview of information design, with an eye towards more applied work.We start with Bayesian Persuasion, which presented a framework for studying information design (Kamenica and Gentzkow, 2011). We then study two applications to markets. First, we study how a seller’s ability to price discriminate based on observable  characteristics of consumers affects producer and consumer surplus (Bergemann, Brooks, and Morris, 2015). Second, we discuss whether or not consumers benefit from knowing their own preferences (Roesler and Szentes, 2017).

Biography: 

 

Nima Haghpanah is an assistant professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University.   Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL and Sloan School of Management. He obtained his PhD in 2014 from Northwestern University.  His dissertation was on optimal multi-parameter auctions, and his research interests are mechanism design, auction design, and game theory. Nima has received a best dissertation award from Northwestern University, and a graduate fellowship from the Simons Foundation.

Schedule: 

8:30 – 10:00
Plan A
 
10:00 – 11:00
Plab B
 
12:00 – 14:00
Plan C
 
8:30 – 10:00
Plan A
 
10:00 – 11:00
Plab B
 
12:00 – 14:00
Plan C

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Speakers:

Hosein Joshaghani

Dr. Ahmad Lashkaripour

Assistant Professor of Economics Indiana University

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indiana University. My Research interests are at the intersection of International trade and Economic development. My work emphasizes the role of composition (product-mix) in trade. Specifically, I study the link between the characteristics of a nation and the structure of its foreign trade. My recent work shows that the welfare-improving effects of trade are remarkably larger in the developing world, when one accounts for the composition of trade flows. In my free time, I play and watch soccer. I’m an avid supporter of Man Utd.

Dr. Ahmad Lashkaripour

Assistant Professor of Economics Indiana University

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indiana University. My Research interests are at the intersection of International trade and Economic development. My work emphasizes the role of composition (product-mix) in trade. Specifically, I study the link between the characteristics of a nation and the structure of its foreign trade. My recent work shows that the welfare-improving effects of trade are remarkably larger in the developing world, when one accounts for the composition of trade flows. In my free time, I play and watch soccer. I’m an avid supporter of Man Utd.

Dr. Ahmad Lashkaripour

Assistant Professor of Economics Indiana University

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indiana University. My Research interests are at the intersection of International trade and Economic development. My work emphasizes the role of composition (product-mix) in trade. Specifically, I study the link between the characteristics of a nation and the structure of its foreign trade. My recent work shows that the welfare-improving effects of trade are remarkably larger in the developing world, when one accounts for the composition of trade flows. In my free time, I play and watch soccer. I’m an avid supporter of Man Utd.

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