Lorenzo Garlappi

Lorenzo Garlappi

Institution

UBC

PhD Year

2001

Email

lorenzo.garlappi@sauder.ubc.ca

FTG Membership

Member

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/lorenzogarlappi/

Featured Work

May 12, 2025

Daniel Andrei, Lorenzo Garlappi | Working Paper No. 00152-00

The Quiet Hand of Regulation: Harnessing Uncertainty and Disagreement

Regulating externalities is a major challenge when economic agents face uncertainty and disagreement. Traditional Pigouvian and Coasean approaches often struggle because they require either precise knowledge of externality costs or frictionless bargaining. We propose an "uncertainty-based regulation" (UBR) mechanism that leverages both uncertainty and firms' heterogeneous information to achieve socially efficient outcomes without requiring disclosure of private information. UBR adjusts firms' payoffs by adding a...