报告题目：Screening with Limited Information: A Dual Perspective and A Geometric Approach

报 告 人：陈植

报告时间：2023年5月16日（星期二），10:00-11:30

报告地点：明哲楼326（腾讯会议同步直播，会议ID：836-888-634）

主办单位：东北财经大学现代供应链管理研究院

【报告人简介】

Zhi Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Sciences, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include (1) developing models and designing algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty with different levels of data availability as well as applications in business, economics, finance, and operations; (2) cooperative game theory for joint activities and its applications in production economics, resource pooling, and risk management. His works appear in journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, and TRB.

【摘要】

Consider a seller seeking a selling mechanism to maximize the worst-case revenue obtained from a buyer whose valuation distribution lies in a certain ambiguity set. For a generic convex ambiguity set, we show via the minimax theorem that strong duality holds between the problem of finding the optimal robust mechanism and a minimax pricing problem where the adversary first chooses a worst-case distribution and then the seller decides the best posted price mechanism. This implies that the extra value of optimizing over more sophisticated mechanisms exactly amounts to the value of eliminating distributional ambiguity under a posted price mechanism. We further provide a geometric approach to analytically solving the minimax pricing problem. The solutions are then used to construct the optimal robust mechanism.

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