Reputation-based Persuasion Platforms

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Autori principali: Arieli, Itai, Madmon, Omer, Tennenholtz, Moshe
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Arieli, Itai
Madmon, Omer
Tennenholtz, Moshe
author_facet Arieli, Itai
Madmon, Omer
Tennenholtz, Moshe
contents In this paper, we introduce a two-stage Bayesian persuasion model in which a third-party platform controls the information available to the sender about users' preferences. We aim to characterize the optimal information disclosure policy of the platform, which maximizes average user utility, under the assumption that the sender also follows its own optimal policy. We show that this problem can be reduced to a model of market segmentation, in which probabilities are mapped into valuations. We then introduce a repeated variation of the persuasion platform problem in which myopic users arrive sequentially. In this setting, the platform controls the sender's information about users and maintains a reputation for the sender, punishing it if it fails to act truthfully on a certain subset of signals. We provide a characterization of the optimal platform policy in the reputation-based setting, which is then used to simplify the optimization problem of the platform.
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spellingShingle Reputation-based Persuasion Platforms
Arieli, Itai
Madmon, Omer
Tennenholtz, Moshe
Computer Science and Game Theory
In this paper, we introduce a two-stage Bayesian persuasion model in which a third-party platform controls the information available to the sender about users' preferences. We aim to characterize the optimal information disclosure policy of the platform, which maximizes average user utility, under the assumption that the sender also follows its own optimal policy. We show that this problem can be reduced to a model of market segmentation, in which probabilities are mapped into valuations. We then introduce a repeated variation of the persuasion platform problem in which myopic users arrive sequentially. In this setting, the platform controls the sender's information about users and maintains a reputation for the sender, punishing it if it fails to act truthfully on a certain subset of signals. We provide a characterization of the optimal platform policy in the reputation-based setting, which is then used to simplify the optimization problem of the platform.
title Reputation-based Persuasion Platforms
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16694