Tutorials

Tutorials

The EC’21 tutorials are part of a much larger program that includes paper watch parties, virtual posters, tutorials, workshops, and more; the full EC’21 calendar can be viewed by clicking the button below.

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Participants are encouraged to attend pre-recording sessions for the tutorials between June 28-July 1, as well as for the watch parties on July 19 where the tutors are on hand to answer questions during the live chat. All times are eastern.

Prophet Inequalities and Implications to Pricing Mechanisms and Online Algorithms (Room A)

Designing Agents’ Preferences, Beliefs, and Identities (Room B)

Robust Auction Design (Room C)
This tutorial focuses on informationally robust auction design; that is, designing auctions to work well regardless of the bidders’ higher-order beliefs about their values.  Informational robustness is desirable for running auctions in practice, since the real-world auctioneer is unlikely to have detailed knowledge of the informational environment; it also addresses the critiques of Bayesian mechanism design, such as the full-surplus extraction results of Cremer and McLean (1988), which are based on the premise that the designer has exact knowledge of the informational environment.  We cover the main methodology and results, and contrast them with the earlier approaches to robust mechanism design (such as ex post implementation) and related topics such as robust predictions in games.

Fairness and Discrimination through the Dual Lens of Mechanism Design and Machine Learning (Room D + Lounge)