github mindmap

README.md

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+```mermaid
+mindmap
+  PHANTOM((PHANTOM Project))
+    North Star
+      Study how automated actors change markets 
+      Build an experimentation platform for real-world-like commerce 
+      Two-loop learning system
+        Online observation loop 
+        Offline "defense gym" loop 
+    Core Economic Questions
+      Price Discovery
+        How prices respond to demand signals
+        How signal quality changes with bots/agents
+      Demand & Elasticity
+        Shifts in willingness-to-pay
+        Short-run vs long-run elasticity
+      Market Efficiency & Welfare
+        Consumer surplus vs producer surplus
+        Deadweight loss from frictions/manipulation
+      Price Discrimination & Segmentation
+        Behavioral feature-based segmentation
+        Fairness vs profitability tradeoffs
+      Information Asymmetry
+        Agents amplify search and arbitrage
+        Sellers infer more about buyers; buyers infer more about sellers
+      Strategic Interaction
+        Consumers vs firms vs agents
+        Feedback loops: policy ↔ behavior ↔ price
+      Market Power & Competition
+        Algorithmic pricing as competitive tool
+        Risks: tacit coordination / "algorithmic collusion"
+      Externalities
+        Congestion and attention costs
+        Spillovers: one segment’s behavior affects others’ prices
+    System-Level View
+      Participants
+        Humans
+        Agents (automated buyers/actors) 
+        Firms (pricing decision-makers)
+        Platform (measurement + control layer)
+      Markets Simulated
+        Repeated transactions
+        Limited inventory / capacity constraints (conceptually)
+        Time dynamics (learning over time)
+      Interventions
+        Pricing policies
+        Experiment assignment / randomized exposure
+        Agent behavioral policies (task-driven)
+    Measurement & Causal Inference
+      What is observed
+        Actions (search, click, purchase intent)
+        Context (product attributes, time, exposure)
+        Outcomes (conversion, revenue, churn proxies)
+      Identification strategy
+        A/B tests and randomization
+        Counterfactual baselines
+        Robustness checks (offline replay)
+      Key metrics
+        Revenue / profit proxies
+        Conversion & bounce
+        Price volatility / stability
+        Welfare proxies (e.g., dispersion, access)
+    Risk, Governance, and Ethics
+      Manipulation & Integrity
+        Bot-driven demand distortion
+        Measurement contamination
+      Fairness & Transparency
+        Differential pricing concerns
+        Explainability and auditability
+      Safety Constraints
+        Guardrails on price moves
+        Monitoring for runaway feedback loops
+    Outputs
+      Insights
+        When do agents raise/lower prices via behavior shifts?
+        Which market designs are robust to automation?
+      Defenses
+        Agent-aware pricing policies (robust control)
+        Detection + mitigation strategies (feature-level separability)
+      Platform Value
+        Reusable testbed for market + AI-agent research
+```