[datascience] econOMEtRics in Rome: Next seminar on Tuesday March 10 at 6:30 pm at Sapienza

["Gianluca Cubadda" < >]

Dear all,

Please be reminded that the next seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 pm at Sapienza, Department of Statistical Sciences, Aula XIV Palazzina Tumminelli.

 

Speaker: Evan Munro, University of Chicago 

 

Title: An Incentive-Aware Framework for A/B Testing

Abstract: Workers propose ideas drawn from a distribution, and firms use an A/B test to obtain a noisy estimate of each idea’s value. We consider the problem of choosing the optimal (p-value) implementation threshold when the distribution of ideas is endogenous to the threshold chosen. In this framework, a lower bar for acceptance, proposed in prior work without incentive effects, may degrade the quality of proposed innovations. Specifying and estimating a model of agent incentives is challenging, so we take a minimax regret approach instead, and choose a threshold that is optimal over a range of possible strategic behavior. Under single crossing conditions on the shift in the idea distribution, we provide a partial identification strategy for the optimal threshold.  We illustrate our approach using A/B testing data from a large technology company. 

 

Please note that Palazzina Tumminelli is the first building on the left entering from V.le dell'Università:

 

https://www.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/ACU007.pdf

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Organizing Committee

 

Christian T. Brownlees
Gianluca Cubadda

Massimo Franchi
Tommaso Proietti
Paolo Santucci de Magistris

 

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