Optimal Signaling Mechanisms in Unobservable Queues

Published in Operations Research (Forthcoming), 2019

Recommended citation: Lingenbrink, David and Iyer, Krishnamurthy, Optimal Signaling Mechanisms in Unobservable Queues (2019). Operations Research, Forthcoming. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2964093

We apply Bayesian persuasion to the setting of queues and find the optimal signaling mechanism to be a threshold mechanism.

First Place, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, 2017.

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