Cole Wittbrodt standing outside a university building — Columbia University
Department of Economics

Economics Ph.D. Student

Cole Wittbrodt

I am an Economics Ph.D. student at Columbia University.

My research interests are mechanism design, information design, bargaining, and limited commitment.

Curriculum vitae Email: cole.wittbrodt@columbia.edu

Working papers

Research & abstracts

Delegating Experiments

with Nathan Yoder

Screening privately informed agents through menus of experiments.

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Optimal Platforms for Search and Matching

Platform design, search frictions, and assortative matching.

Bargaining with Absentmindedness

Bounded rationality as a source of bargaining power and delay.

Work in progress

Market Segmentation with Heterogeneous Seller Beliefs
with Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier
The Indirect Cost of LLMs: A Microfoundation
with Maxim Ventura-Bolet
Reputation and Limited Commitment in Mechanism Design
Dynamic Content Selection
with Cesar Barilla and Yeon-Koo Che
Privacy Considerations in Dynamic Data Markets