5 papers
Calibrated Mechanism Design
Laura Doval, Alex Smolin
We study mechanism design when a designer repeatedly uses a fixed mechanism to interact with strategic agents who learn from observing their allocations. We introduce a static fram…
Revealed Information
Laura Doval, Ran Eilat, Tianhao Liu +1
An analyst observes the frequency with which a decision maker (DM) takes actions, but not the frequency conditional on payoff-relevant states. We ask when the analyst can rationali…
Local hedging approximately solves Pandora's box problems with nonobligatory inspection
Ziv Scully, Laura Doval
We consider search problems with nonobligatory inspection and single-item or combinatorial selection. A decision maker is presented with a number of items, each of which contains a…
Social Learning in Lung Transplant Decision
Laura Doval, Federico Echenique Wanying Huang, Yi Xin
We study the allocation of deceased-donor lungs to patients in need of a transplant. Patients make sequential decisions in an order dictated by a priority policy. Using data from a…
Consistent Conjectures in Dynamic Matching Markets
Laura Doval, Pablo Schenone
We provide a framework to study stability notions for two-sided dynamic matching markets in which matching is one-to-one and irreversible. The framework gives center stage to the s…