Hisayuki Yoshimoto presents the research findings on the project of quality certification and online reviews at Competition and Markets Authority, London, March 2020.

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Censorship as Optimal Persuasion” at the Australian Economic Theory Workshop 2020, University of Adelaide, Australia, February 2020

Anton Kolotilin gave a talk on “Censorship as Optimal Persuasion” at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) 2020 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, January 2020.

Andy Zapechelnyuk gave a talk on “Optimal Quality Certification” at the UNSW Business School, Sydney, December 2019.

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.

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