Seminar 217, Risk Management: "Learning in Economics and Market Design" (Online)

Seminar 217, Risk Management: "Learning in Economics and Market Design" (Online)

Risk Seminar
Sep 28, 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Online via Zoom | Happening As Scheduled
Xiaowu Dai, UC Berkeley (Speaker - Featured)

ABSTRACT: We study the problem of decision-making in the setting of a scarcity of shared resources when the preferences of agents are unknown a priori and must be learned from data. Taking the two-sided matching market as a running example, we focus on the decentralized setting, where agents do not share their learned preferences with a central authority. Our approach is based on the...