Andy Zapechelnyuk gave a talk on “Are There Ratatouille Restaurants? On Anticorrelation of Food Quality and Hygiene” at the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, UK, November 2019.

We are organising the Symposium on Communication and Persuasion, to be held in St Andrews on 14-15 March (Saturday-Sunday), 2020. The keynote speakers include Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago), Joel Sobel (University of California – San Diego), and Tymofiy Mylovanov (Government of Ukraine and University of Pittsburgh). More details are here.

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at Sydney Economic Design Festival: Information, Markets and Mechanisms, November 13-15 2019, Sydney, Australia

The research paper titled “Optimal Quality Certification” by Andriy Zapechelnyuk is accepted for publication to American Economic Review: Insights.

Summary: Quality certification not only informs consumers, but also stimulates producers to supply better quality products. The paper studies a problem of quality certification in a moral hazard setting. It is shown that, under standard assumptions, simple certification systems, such as quality assurance rule and pass-fail rule, are optimal. The solution method involves interpreting the certification problem as a delegation problem.

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at the Economics Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, June 2019

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, UK, May 2019

Andy Zapechelnyuk gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at Bristol-Kent-Southampton Workshop on Economic Theory, June 10-11 2019, Bristol, UK

Andy Zapechelnyuk organised a session on the frontiers of information design, persuasion and communication at the 2019 SAET Conference (Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory), Ischia, Italy, June 30-July 5.

The session featured the talks from leading specialists in the field:

• “Belief Management and Optimal Arbitration” by Johannes Schneider (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), joint with Benjamin Balzer (University of Technology Sydney)
• “Persuasion for the Long Run” by James Best (Carnegie Mellon University), joint with Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford)
• “Optimal Persuasion with an Application to Media Censorship” by Andy Zapechelnyuk (St Andrews), joint with Anton Kolotilin (UNSW) and Tymofiy Mylovanov (University of Pittsburgh)

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at the Economics Department, University of Miami, FL, USA, April 2019

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Persuasion Meets Delegation” at the Economics Department, Boston University, MA, USA, April 2019