4 papers
Pareto-Improving Pricing: Why 3 Is Better Than 2
Zi Yang Kang, Piotr Dworczak
We study the design of priority pricing systems with heterogeneous agents in environments in which improving quality for some agents reduces the average quality that can be provide…
Searchable Menus
Frank Yang, Piotr Dworczak
Multidimensional screening is (in)famously intractable. In this paper, we study optimal screening mechanisms subject to a tractability constraint from the agent's perspective. Spec…
Robust Trust
Piotr Dworczak, Alex Smolin
An agent chooses an action based on her private information and a recommendation from an informed but potentially misaligned adviser. With a known probability, the adviser truthful…
The Persuasion Duality
Piotr Dworczak, Anton Kolotilin
We present a unified duality approach to Bayesian persuasion. The optimal dual variable, interpreted as a price function on the state space, is shown to be a supergradient of the c…