Hi! My name is Daniel and I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam.
I'm a microeconomic theorist interested mainly in the fields of information economics, behavioral economics and political economics.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Sciences Po in 2023, advised by Eduardo Perez-Richet.
Working Papers
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Price Discrimination with Redistributive Concerns, with Victor Augias and Alexis Ghersengorin. New draft coming soon!
Accepted for presentation at EC'24.
Abstract: Consumer data can be used to sort consumers into different market segments, allowing a monopolist to charge different prices at each segment. We study consumer-optimal segmentations with redistributive concerns, i.e., that prioritize poorer consumers. Such segmentations are efficient but may grant additional profits to the monopolist, compared to consumer-optimal segmentations with no redistributive concerns. We characterize the markets for which this is the case and provide a procedure for constructing optimal segmentations given a strong redistributive motive. For the remaining markets, we show that the optimal segmentation is surprisingly simple: it generates one segment with a discount price and one segment with the same price that would be charged if there were no segmentation.
Abstract: We study a persuasion problem in which a sender designs an information structure to induce a non-Bayesian receiver to take a particular action. The receiver, who is privately informed about his preferences, is a wishful thinker: he is systematically overoptimistic about the most favorable outcomes. We show that wishful thinking can lead to a qualitative shift in the structure of optimal persuasion compared to the Bayesian case, whenever the sender is uncertain about what the receiver perceives as the best-case outcome in his decision problem.
Work in Progress
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Regulating Market Segmentation, with Victor Augias and Alexis Ghersengorin.
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