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Competing Models
This seminar will take place on Zoom
We develop a model in which different agents compete to predict a variable of interest.This variable is related to observables via an unknown data generating process. All agents are Bayesian, but may have ‘misspecified models’ of the world, i.e., they consider different subsets of observables to make their prediction. After observing a common dataset, who has the highest confidence in her predictive ability? We characterize it and show that it crucially depends on the size of the dataset. With big data, we show it is typically ‘largedimensional,’ possibly using more variables than the true model. With small data, we show (under additional assumptions) that it is an agent using a model that is ‘small-dimensional,’ in the sense of considering fewer covariates than the true data generating process. The theory is applied to auctions of assets where bidders observe the same information but hold different priors.
Please sign up for meetings here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oOdNFPS0gB3nsREcYq8_0hSXqAZ6VjlE-MozGuzhyCQ/edit#gid=0
Date:
12 June 2020, 14:15
Venue:
Venue to be announced
Speaker:
Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Melis Clark
