Credible persuasion

X Lin, C Liu - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose a new notion of credibility for Bayesian persuasion problems. A disclosure
policy is credible if the sender cannot profit from tampering with her messages while keeping …

Learning before trading: on the inefficiency of ignoring free information

D Ravid, AK Roesler, B Szentes - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper analyzes a bilateral trade model in which the buyer's valuation for the object is
uncertain and she can privately purchase any signal about her valuation. The seller makes a …

Information design in multistage games

M Makris, L Renou - Theoretical Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Information design in multistage games - Makris - 2023 - Theoretical Economics - Wiley Online
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Robustly-optimal mechanism for selling multiple goods

YK Che, W Zhong - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We study robustly-optimal mechanisms for selling multiple items. The seller maximizes
revenue against a worst-case distribution of a buyer's valuations within a set of distributions …

Optimal information and security design

N Inostroza, A Tsoy - Available at SSRN 4093333, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
An asset owner designs an asset-backed security and a signal about its value. After privately
observing the signal, he sells the security to the monopolistic liquidity supplier. Any optimal …

Monopoly, product quality, and flexible learning

J Mensch, D Ravid - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09985, 2022 - arxiv.org
A seller offers a buyer a schedule of transfers and associated product qualities, as in Mussa
and Rosen (1978). After observing this schedule, the buyer chooses a flexible costly signal …

The irrelevance of fee structures for certification

M Pollrich, R Strausz - American Economic Review: Insights, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
In models of certification, possible restrictions on the nature of the fee structures are
commonly analyzed. We show that they are irrelevant for the certifier's ability to maximize …

[PDF][PDF] Knowing your lemon before you dump it

A Pavan, J Tirole - 2023 - aeaweb.org
In many games of interest (eg, trade, entry, leadership, warfare, and partnership
environments), one player (the leader) covertly acquires information about the state of …

[图书][B] Welfare of price discrimination and market segmentation in duopoly

X Shi, J Zhang - 2020 - individual.utoronto.ca
We apply information design approach to studying market segmentation and third-degree
price discrimination in a duopoly market with captive and contested consumers. A market …

On the Alignment of Consumer Surplus and Total Surplus Under Competitive Price Discrimination

D Bergemann, B Brooks, S Morris - 2024 - elischolar.library.yale.edu
Producers of heterogeneous goods with heterogeneous costs compete in prices. When
producers know their own production costs and the consumer knows their values, consumer …