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The Cost of Information

17 Dec
2019
2:00 pm
Jouy-en-Josas
English

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2019-12-17T14:00:00 2019-12-17T15:15:00 The Cost of Information ECONOMICS AND DECISION SCIENCES DEPARTMENT Speaker : Philipp Strack (Yale University) HEC Campus - Building T - Room T015   Jouy-en-Josas

ECONOMICS AND DECISION SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

Speaker : Philipp Strack (Yale University)

HEC Campus - Building T - Room T015

 

Abstract :

We develop an axiomatic theory of information acquisition that captures the idea of constant marginal costs in information production: the cost of generating two independent signals is the sum of their costs, and generating a signal with probability half costs half its original cost. Together with a monotonicity and a continuity conditions, these axioms determine the cost of a signal up to a vector of parameters. These parameters have a clear economic interpretation and determine the difficulty of distinguishing states. We argue that this cost function is a versatile modeling tool that leads to more realistic predictions than mutual information.

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2019-12-17T14:00:00 2019-12-17T15:15:00 The Cost of Information ECONOMICS AND DECISION SCIENCES DEPARTMENT Speaker : Philipp Strack (Yale University) HEC Campus - Building T - Room T015   Jouy-en-Josas