Informing the public about a pandemic

F De Véricourt, H Gurkan, S Wang - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper explores how governments may efficiently inform the public about an epidemic to
induce compliance with their confinement measures. Using an information design …

Information provision in two-sided platforms: Optimizing for supply

K Bimpikis, Y Papanastasiou… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Although information design has recently received significant attention as a tool for shaping
consumers' purchase behavior, little is known about its use and implications in two-sided …

Persuasion in networks: Public signals and k-cores

O Candogan - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We consider a setting where agents in a social network take binary actions, which exhibit
local strategic complementarities. In particular, the payoff of each agent depends on the …

Information design for congested social services: Optimal need-based persuasion

J Anunrojwong, K Iyer, V Manshadi - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the effectiveness of information design in reducing congestion in social services
catering to users with varied levels of need. In the absence of price discrimination and …

Information design in operations

O Candogan - Pushing the Boundaries: Frontiers in Impactful …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Consider a set of agents (receivers) whose payoffs depend on an underlying state of the
world as well as each other's actions. Suppose that a designer (sender) commits to a …

The Value of Information Design in Supply Chain Management

O Candogan, H Gurkan - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies an information design problem of a retailer in a two-tier supply chain that
procures a single type of product from a supplier. The supplier needs to decide on a …

Competitive information design for pandora's box

B Ding, Y Feng, CJ Ho, W Tang, H Xu - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM …, 2023 - SIAM
We study a natural competitive-information-design variant for the Pandora's Box problem
[31], where each box is associated with a strategic information sender who can design what …

Algorithms for persuasion with limited communication

R Gradwohl, N Hahn, M Hoefer… - Mathematics of …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
The Bayesian persuasion paradigm of strategic communication models interaction between
a privately informed sender and an ignorant but rational receiver. The goal is typically to …

Information disclosure and promotion policy design for platforms

Y Gur, G Macnamara, I Morgenstern… - Management …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a platform facilitating trade between sellers and buyers with the objective of
maximizing consumer surplus. Even though in many such marketplaces, prices are set by …

Information design of a delegated search

Y Xiao, Z Hu, S Wang - Available at SSRN 4249165, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
A principal delegates a sequential search with finite search opportunities to an agent, who
bears the search cost and can terminate the search. While the principal also has the right to …