When applying to a university, students and their parents devote considerable time
acquiring information about university programs in order to form preferences. We explore …

We consider a mechanism design setting in which agents can acquire costly information on
their preferences as well as others'. A mechanism is informationally simple if agents have no …

This dissertation comprises three essays in information economics, all co-authored with
Simon Gleyze. Each essay employs tools from mechanism design and game theory to …

Beliefs and preferences are two building blocks which, together with the concept of
rationality, underlie most descriptive and normative analysis in economics. This dissertation …

We consider a mechanism design setting in which agents can acquire costly information on
their preferences as well as others'. A mechanism is informationally simple if agents have no …