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My name is Xiaosheng Mu, and I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. My research interests include information acquisition, mechanism design, stochastic orders and their applications to decision making.

 

Prior to joining Princeton, I was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia University and a post-doctoral researcher at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. I obtained my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where I was advised by Drew Fudenberg, Eric Maskin and Tomasz Strzalecki.

 

Xiaosheng's CV

Monotone Additive Statistics, with Luciano Pomatto, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz Accepted at Econometrica.

Background Risk and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion, with Luciano Pomatto, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz Forthcoming at AER: Insights.

Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (with Annie Liang and Vasilis Syrgkanis) Econometrica, 90 (1): 47-90, 2022.

Bayesian Privacy (with Ran Eilat and Kfir Eliaz) Theoretical Economics, 16 (4): 1557-1603, 2021.

Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing (with Jonathan Libgober) Review of Economic Studies, 88 (3): 1224-1252, 2021.

From Blackwell Dominance in Large Samples to Rényi Divergences and Back Again (with Luciano Pomatto, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz) Econometrica, 89 (1): 475-506, 2021.

Complementary Information and Learning Traps (with Annie Liang) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135 (1): 389-448, 2020.

Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition (with Annie Liang and Vasilis Syrgkanis) EC ’18, Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2018.

Log-concavity of a Mixture of Beta Distributions. Statistics and Probability Letters, 99: 125-130, 2015.

Differentially Private and Incentive Compatible Recommendation System for the Adoption of Network Goods (with Kevin He) EC ’14, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2014.