题    目： Modeling the Modeler: A Normative Theory of Experimental Design

嘉    宾： Piermont Evan  Senior Lecturer  伦敦大学

主持人： 林熙之 助理教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院  

时    间： 2025年4月23日（周三）16:00-17:30

地    点:  上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A511

内容简介：

We consider an analyst whose goal is to identify a subject's utility function through revealed preference analysis. We argue the analyst's preference about which experiments to run should adhere to three normative principles: The first, Structural Invariance, requires that the value of a choice experiment only depends on what the experiment may potentially reveal. The second, Identification Separability, demands that the value of identification is independent of what would have been counterfactually identified had the subject had a different utility. Finally, Information Monotonicity asks that more informative experiments are preferred. We provide a representation theorem, showing that these three principles characterize Expected Identification Value maximization, a functional form that unifies several theories of experimental design. We also study several special cases and discuss potential applications. 

演讲人简介：

My research is focused on understanding the relationship between language, informa- tion, and preference—developing models that explore human reasoning, preference and judgement in the face of linguistic and epistemological constraints. I am interested in both theoretical foundation for these questions as well as the descriptive answers that arise from experimental methods.

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