{"id":19,"date":"2018-09-20T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:28:16","slug":"working_papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/working_papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Previous version of <\/strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/files\/2025\/03\/stochastic.pdf\">Mechanism Design for Acquisition of\/Stochastic Evidence<\/a>,&#8221; with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel. \u00a0I keep the previous version here as it \u00a0contains our result on value to commitment. \u00a0The new version, forthcoming in <em>Theoretical Economics<\/em>,\u00a0does not include this result as we are moving it to a new paper. \u00a0In the meantime, you can find that result in Section 5 of this version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"\/blipman\/files\/2024\/06\/acquisition-2024-04.pdf\">Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition<\/a>,&#8221; with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel, current draft, April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"\/blipman\/files\/2025\/07\/supp-app-2024-04-21.pdf\">Supplemental Appendix for &#8216;Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition<\/a>,&#8217;&#8221; with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel, April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"\/blipman\/files\/2021\/10\/elementary-rev.pdf\">An Elementary Proof of the Optimality of Threshold Mechanisms<\/a>,&#8221; first draft June 2015, current draft July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unlikely to ever submit this paper.\u00a0 It contains a much simpler proof of the main result in Ben-Porath, Dekel, and Lipman, &#8220;Optimal Allocation with Costly Verification,&#8221; and I wrote it out of frustration with the messy argument there.\u00a0 Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DbzOqBoTmm0&amp;t=194s\">as Ricky Vohra says<\/a>, the proof in the\u00a0<em>AER\u00a0<\/em>is a mess.\u00a0 Unlike Ricky&#8217;s proof, this very simple one doesn&#8217;t assume finitely many IID types.\u00a0 But Ricky is right about the reduced form&#8230;\u00a0 Well, live and learn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous version of &#8220;Mechanism Design for Acquisition of\/Stochastic Evidence,&#8221; with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel. \u00a0I keep the previous version here as it \u00a0contains our result on value to commitment. \u00a0The new version, forthcoming in Theoretical Economics,\u00a0does not include this result as we are moving it to a new paper. \u00a0In the meantime, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15163,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/blipman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}