Yang, Frank; Dworczak, Piotr; Akbarpour, Mohammad - 2023
A designer relies on a costly screening device to allocate a set of goods, aiming to maximize a social welfare function …. We provide conditions for one screening device to dominate another. We show that the performance of a screening device … assignments, and (ii) rent provision which determines the utilities of agents receiving the goods net of the screening costs. We …