9 papers
Fair Commodity Taxation
Eric Gao, Daniel Luo
We study optimal taxation in monopoly screening problems with a redistribution-minded regulator. When the regulator moves before the monopolist, any nondecreasing allocation can be…
Multidimensional Sequential Screening
Eric Gao
I study multidimensional sequential screening. A monopolist contracts with a buyer who privately observes information about the distribution of their eventual valuations for multip…
Private From Whom? A Privacy Frontier for Auctions
Eric Gao, Eric Tang
In many auctions, bidders may value keeping their information private from the auctioneer and other bidders. Among deterministic bilateral communication protocols, revealing less i…
Artificial or Human Intelligence?
Eric Gao
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as large language models (LLMs) are already altering student learning. Unlike previous technologies, LLMs can independently solve problems r…
Seeding an Uncertain Technology
Eric Gao
I study how a startup with uncertainty over product quality and no knowledge of the underlying diffusion network optimally chooses initial seeds. To ensure widespread adoption when…
Simple Paired Combinatorial Assignment
Eric Gao
Consider a university assigning students to courses and dorms. While many mechanisms are available, they each have their own drawbacks. Running serial dictatorship once for all goo…
Quantity Limits on Addictive Goods
Eric Gao
Addiction is a major societal issue leading to billions in healthcare losses per year. Policy makers often introduce ad hoc quantity limits-limits on the consumption or possession…
Random Serial Dictatorship with Transfers
Sudharsan Sundar, Eric Gao, Trevor Chow +1
It is well known that Random Serial Dictatorship is strategy-proof and leads to a Pareto-Efficient outcome. We show that this result breaks down when individuals are allowed to mak…
(Robust) Information Acquisition Design
Eric Gao, Daniel Luo
We study the design of information acquisition games-environments where a designer contracts their action on Sender's choice of experiment and the realized signals about some state…