Dashboards, feeds, and leaderboards determine whom agents believe they are playing against. We study how such information architectures shape strategic behavior, and how a designer who controls them can use visibility as a lever. We propose a behavioral model in which a transparency parameter governs how selectively ag...
Raman Ebrahimi, S. Ilami, Babak Heydari et al.· 0 citations
A model of strategic opinion manipulation on multiplex networks, in which a platform merges L network layers with attention weights, and each agent, holding a private opinion, chooses (potentially different) reports on each layer, at a layer-specific misreporting cost, so as to pull the merged consensus toward their ow...
Strategic classification studies how a decision maker should choose a classifier when the agents being classified can adjust their features in response to it. In existing models, the classifier is the only instrument available to the decision maker, and therefore a feature that is predictive but easy to fake can only b...