时间：2025年4月4日10:30-12:00

地点：明德主楼734

汇报人：Martin Szydlowski（香港科技大学经济管理学院副教授）

主持人：赵玮（中国人民大学经济学院讲师）

主题：Deprioritizing Content

讲座简介：

I study platform design in a dynamic setting with inattentive followers. An influencer faces a stream of followers who randomly arrive on a platform and whose value from paying attention changes stochastically. The influencer chooses the quality of information to disclose each instant and followers choose whether to process that information. In the unique equilibrium, the influencer provides low quality information at all times. The optimal platform design which implements high quality deprioritizes the influencer's content periodically. The least-cost monetization scheme which implements high quality awards advertising revenue only to influencers with sufficiently many followers.

个人简介：

Martin Szydlowski is an associate professor of economics at the School of Business and Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research is in the areas of game theory, industrial organization, and finance. His recent work examines the design of internet platforms, the emergence of hype cycles, and the market for SPACs. Professor Szydlowski's work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Before joining HKUST, Szydlowski was on the faculty at the University of Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University, and holds a diploma in economics from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He currently teaches microeconomic theory.