The recent success of crowdfunding for supporting new and innovative products has been overwhelming with over 34 Billion Dollars raised in 2015. In many crowdfunding platforms, firms set a campaign threshold and contributions are collected only if this threshold is reached. During the campaign,...

We address the question to which degree the private information of a decision maker is revealed through his action, in an environment with compact metrizable state and action space. We show that the decision maker's optimal action reveals his posterior distribution for a generic set of...

We study a social learning model with payoff externalities in which one of two state-dependent games is chosen at random and then played repeatedly by a different group of agents. Each "generation" observes the history of actions and receives conditionally independent private signals about the...

An investor has a strictly increasing Bernoulli utility function. He chooses an expected utility maximizing portfolio among a finite set of assets with random return profile. A compensation scheme assigns positive payments to the investor depending on his portfolio and the realized return...

We consider an infinite two-player stochastic zero-sum game with a Borel winning set, in which the opponent's actions are monitored via stochastic private signals. We identify two conditions of the signalling structure: Stochastic Eventual Perfect Monitoring (SEPM) and Weak Stochastic Eventual...

This paper analyzes a sequential social learning game with a general utility function, state and action space. We show that asymptotic learning holds for every utility function if and only if signals are totally unbounded, i.e., the support of the private posterior probability of every event...

It is well understood that the structure of a social network is critical to whether or not agents can aggregate information correctly. In this paper, we study social networks that support information aggregation when rational agents act sequentially and irrevocably. Whether or not information is...

Society uses the following mechanism to decide on the supply of a public good. Each agent canchoose whether or not to contribute to the good. Contributions are collected, and the good issupplied whenever total contributions exceed a threshold. We study the case where the publicgood is...

Two firms produce substitute goods of unknown quality. At each stage the firms set prices and a consumer with private information and unit demand buys from one of the firms. Both firms and consumers see the entire history of prices and purchases. Will such markets aggregate information? Will the...