Speaker: Professor Paola Manzini (University of Bristol)
Hosted by: University of Liverpool Management School's Economics Group
Open to: Management School PhD students and academic staff, with no sign up needed
Date: Wednesday 25 October 2023
Time: 2-3.15pm
Place: 126 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5SR - Lecture Theatre 113
Abstract
Online technologies enable a host of observable acts, such as wishlisting, that do not quite amount to choice meant as a final selection.
Rather, they express interest and a positive attitude towards an item. We gather this type of behaviour under the term approval.
With items presented as a list, we propose a model of approval.We completely characterise the model in terms of simple properties of observed approval data.
We introduce and study the problem of list design. This captures situations where an interested party can manipulate the approver’s behaviour by choosing the list with the aim of maximising an objective.
Keywords
Approval behaviour, List design
Full paper
Manzini, P., Mariotti, M., and Ulku, L. (2023) 'A model of approval with an application to list design'
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