About Me
I am a 5th year PhD student at Yale. I am interested in Economic Theory, particularly in Information, Behavioral, and Game Theory.
Articles
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Non-Bayesian updating and value of information
Abstract: We study how non-Bayesian updating affects the evaluation of information, and when it may lead to information avoidance. We propose two measures of value: a prospective view, based on anticipatory utility, and a consequentialist view, based on realized utility. Under the prospective view, information can have non-instrumental value. We show that the absence of non-instrumental value characterizes the optimality of perfect information, which in turn is equivalent to additional information being always desirable. Under both views, overreaction is incompatible with robust desirability of additional information, while underreaction accommodates it.
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Sophisticated reasoning, learning, and equilibrium in repeated games with imperfect feedback
with Pierpaolo Battigalli
Economic Theory, 2024
Abstract: We analyze the infinite repetition with imperfect feedback of a simultaneous or sequential game, assuming that players are strategically sophisticated—but impatient—expected-utility maximizers. Sophisticated strategic reasoning in the repeated game is combined with belief updating to provide a foundation for a refinement of self-confirming equilibrium. In particular, we model strategic sophistication as rationality and common strong belief in rationality. Then, we combine belief updating and sophisticated reasoning to provide sufficient conditions for a kind of learning—that is, the ability, in the limit, to exactly forecast the sequence of future observations—thus showing that impatient agents end up playing a sequence of self-confirming equilibria in strongly rationalizable conjectures of the one-period game.
Contact
You can contact me at: davide.bordoli@yale.edu