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Design Problems Under Strategic Manipulation
Design Problems Under Strategic Manipulation
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260209102844
- ISBN
- 9798291584378
- DDC
- 519
- 저자명
- Qiu, Xiaoyun.
- 서명/저자
- Design Problems Under Strategic Manipulation
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 177 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Wolinsky, Asher;Strulovici, Bruno.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This thesis explores design questions in resource allocation and screening when participants can privately expend effort to appear more qualified than they truly are, a phenomenon known as strategic manipulation. The central question it addresses is: How does strategic manipulation by participants shape the design of allocation and screening rules?The first chapter is coauthored with Yingkai Li. Motivated by the excessive signaling efforts observed in many centralized systems, it asks: What is the optimal mechanism to reduce wasteful competition while achieving a desired allocation rule? The mechanism designer allocates resources based on costly signals that reflect both deservingness and private effort. When multiple participants compete, dispersing participants' information introduces a novel tradeoff: it better coordinates effort and lowers the burden on losers, but also increases overall incentive costs and raises effort among winners. Under reasonable assumptions, we show that in the optimal mechanism, it is optimal not to disperse participants' information, and thus the optimal design features zero coordination, which can be implemented via an all-pay contest.The second chapter is coauthored with Yingkai Li. It applies these insights to public program design, where misrepresentation of eligibility is a major concern. We show that when the pool of applicants is large, randomizing allocation among middle types, those who are neither most nor least deserving, strikes the best balance between matching efficiency (allocating to the most deserving) and utilitarian welfare (maximizing total utility).The third chapter is coauthored with Liren Shan. It examines the structure of testing institutions when the rules can be manipulated. Real-world standards often involve multiple criteria, which can be administered by either independent bureaucracies (each handling one criterion) or a centralized joint bureaucracy. We find that when personalized testing is feasible, joint bureaucracies significantly improve accuracy and efficiency. As AI and automation tools become more capable, implementing such personalized testing is increasingly realistic. However, when personalization is not possible, the relative performance of independent and joint bureaucracies depends on the specific environment.
- 일반주제명
- Applied mathematics
- 일반주제명
- Finance
- 키워드
- Mechanism design
- 키워드
- Design problems
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis thesis explores design questions in resource allocation and screening when participants can privately expend effort to appear more qualified than they truly are, a phenomenon known as strategic manipulation. The central question it addresses is: How does strategic manipulation by participants shape the design of allocation and screening rules?The first chapter is coauthored with Yingkai Li. Motivated by the excessive signaling efforts observed in many centralized systems, it asks: What is the optimal mechanism to reduce wasteful competition while achieving a desired allocation rule? The mechanism designer allocates resources based on costly signals that reflect both deservingness and private effort. When multiple participants compete, dispersing participants' information introduces a novel tradeoff: it better coordinates effort and lowers the burden on losers, but also increases overall incentive costs and raises effort among winners. Under reasonable assumptions, we show that in the optimal mechanism, it is optimal not to disperse participants' information, and thus the optimal design features zero coordination, which can be implemented via an all-pay contest.The second chapter is coauthored with Yingkai Li. It applies these insights to public program design, where misrepresentation of eligibility is a major concern. We show that when the pool of applicants is large, randomizing allocation among middle types, those who are neither most nor least deserving, strikes the best balance between matching efficiency (allocating to the most deserving) and utilitarian welfare (maximizing total utility).The third chapter is coauthored with Liren Shan. It examines the structure of testing institutions when the rules can be manipulated. Real-world standards often involve multiple criteria, which can be administered by either independent bureaucracies (each handling one criterion) or a centralized joint bureaucracy. We find that when personalized testing is feasible, joint bureaucracies significantly improve accuracy and efficiency. As AI and automation tools become more capable, implementing such personalized testing is increasingly realistic. However, when personalization is not possible, the relative performance of independent and joint bureaucracies depends on the specific environment.
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■653 ▼aJoint bureaucracy
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■71020▼aNorthwestern University▼bEconomics.
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■792 ▼a2025
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17365873▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


