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My name is Xiaosheng Mu, and I am an assistant professor in the Economics Department at Columbia University. My research interests are in information acquisition and mechanism design.
Working Papers
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing, with Jonathan Libgober (April 2020) R&R at Review of Economic Studies
Blackwell Dominance in Large Samples, with Luciano Pomatto, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz (March 2020) R&R at Econometrica
Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information, with Annie Liang and Vasilis Syrgkanis (April 2020)
Bayesian Privacy, with Ran Eilat and Kfir Eliaz (March 2020)
Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition, with Annie Liang and Vasilis Syrgkanis (March 2019)
Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference, with Scott D. Kominers and Alex Peysakhovich (January 2019) R&R at Games and Economic Behavior
Amendment Voting with Incomplete Preferences (January 2019)
Keeping Your Story Straight: Truthtelling and Liespotting, with Johannes Hörner and Nicolas Vieille (April 2017)
Publications
Complementary Information and Learning Traps (with Annie Liang) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135 (1): 389-448, 2020.
Differentially Private and Incentive Compatible Recommendation System for the Adoption of Network Goods. (with Kevin He) EC ’14, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2014.
Log-concavity of a Mixture of Beta Distributions. Statistics and Probability Letters, 99: 125-130, 2015.
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