Binary mechanisms under privacy-preserving noise
- Creators
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Pourbabaee, Farzad1
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Echenique, Federico2
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California Institute of Technology
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2.
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
We study mechanism design for public-good provision under a noisy privacy-preserving transformation of individual agents' reported preferences. The setting is a standard binary model with transfers and quasi-linear utility. Agents report their preferences for the public good, which are randomly "flipped," so that any individual report may be explained away as the outcome of noise. We study the tradeoffs between preserving the public decisions made in the presence of noise (noise sensitivity), pursuing efficiency, and mitigating the effect of noise on revenue.
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Contributions
Farzad Pourbabaee: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Investigation, Conceptualization. Federico Echenique: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Investigation, Conceptualization.
Conflict of Interest
Regarding the paper “Binary Mechanisms under Privacy-Preserving Noise,” submitted for publication in the Journal of Economic Theory, we declare that we have relevant financial interests to declare.
Data Availability
No data was used for the research described in the article.
Additional details
- Accepted
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2025-01-06Accepted
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2025-01-10Available online
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2025-01-15Version of Record
- Publication Status
- Published