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Segment-and-Rule: Modern Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes.
Antoine Zerbini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
We analyze the incentives of authoritarian regimes to segment access to censored content through technology. Citizens choose whether to pay...
Who and How? Adverse Selection and Flexible Moral Hazard (by Henrique Castro-Pires, Deniz Kattwinkel, and Jan Knoepfle)
Henrique Castro-Pires, Harvard Business School
We characterize incentive compatible mechanisms in environments with hidden types and flexible hidden actions. Our approach introduces...
Freemium Model for Information Provision
Igal Milchtaich, Bar-Ilan University
The paper explores a theoretical freemium model for the sale of information, drawing on mathematical tools used in the study of repeated...
Joint Theory and Econometrics: Tuesday, March 31
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Auctions as Experiments (with Ryota Iijima, Yuhta Ishii, and Nicholas Wu)
Mira Frick, Princeton University
We study a seller who does not know the distribution of buyers’ values, but can learn from observing their bids in an auction. Which...