Seminar Francois Durand: "Analysis of Approval Voting in Poisson Games"

Analysis of Approval Voting in Poisson Games

Poisson games were introduced by Roger Myerson to model large elections. In this framework, the number of players of each type follows a Poisson distribution. Typically, the expected number of players is considered large, and players base their strategic response on rare events, such as a "pivot" where two candidates are tied for victory, and where one vote can make the difference. The main part of the talk will be dedicated to presenting Poisson games and the main theoretical results about them. Then I will say a few words about our work on a voting rule called Approval voting.

References:
R. Myerson (2000). Large Poisson games. Journal of Economic Theory, 94, 7–45.
R. Myerson (2002). Comparison of scoring rules in Poisson voting games. Journal of Economic Theory, 103, 219–251.
F. Durand, A. Macé and M. Núñez (2019). Analysis of Approval Voting in Poisson Games. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.