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Incentives in School Choice with Rank-Dependent Priorities
Mechanism & Market Design / Game Theory & Networks
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Many school admission systems give a higher priority to a student who ranks a school higher in his submitted preference...
Generative Grammars and Games of Addition: Comparing Their Mathematical Structures and Applicability to Organizational Decision-Making
Game Theory & Networks
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This paper examines whether Barberà and Gerber’s framework of games of addition can provide a formal basis for analyzing organizational...
Optimal Insurance With Ambiguity Under Mean-Variance-Variance Preferences
Information & Contracts
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We study the optimal design of insurance contracts for a decision maker who is both risk-and ambiguity-averse and whose preferences...
Three Essays on Personal Bankruptcy
Game Theory & Networks / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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This thesis presents three essays on the Öeld of personal bankruptcy. The research carried out is mostly, but not fully...
Market Power and Insurance Coverage
Information & Contracts / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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This paper compares allocations under monopoly and perfect competition in markets with adverse selection, such as insurance markets. We show...
Shaping the Menu: Information Design under Screening
Information & Contracts
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How should consumers learn when a seller chooses a menu of product qualities and prices? We study information design when...
Credit-Based vs. Discount-Based Congestion Pricing: A Comparison Study
Game Theory & Networks
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Credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) and discount-based congestion pricing (DBCP), which respectively allot travel credits and toll discounts to subsidize low-income...
Asking for the Right Signal: Information Design and Portfolio Choice
Information & Contracts
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Investors choose not only how much information to acquire, but also how predictive information is represented for decisions. This paper...
Non-Nashian Game Theory
Game Theory & Networks
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The concepts I am sketching below are probably already known by game theorists, but I don't know them. I feel...
Dynamic Mechanism and Information Design in AI-Agent Environments: A General Analytical Framework
Information & Contracts
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This paper develops a general framework for dynamic mechanism and information design with AI agents, encompassing optimal contracting and integrating...
Knowing and Processing: Information Acquisition and Computation in General Equilibrium
Information & Contracts / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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Rational inattention prices what an agent knows and assumes she acts on it exactly and for free. This paper prices...
The False Allure of "Security by Obscurity": A Game-Theoretic Approach
Game Theory & Networks
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Security by obscurity," or the idea that hiding how a system works helps protect it from adversaries, has long been...
Good-Fit Signals: Information Design for Skills-Based Volunteer Engagement
Information & Contracts / Decision & Social Choice
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Problem definition: Nonprofits recruiting skilled volunteers face a tradeoff in communicating task requirements. While more precise information about task requirements...
Optimal Taxation of Cryptocurrency:Loss Relief, Concealment, and Enforcement
Mechanism & Market Design
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Crypto gains can be hidden in self-custodied or offshore wallets, but crypto losses are claimed by taxpayers and verified. We...
General Equilibrium Headroom: Endogenous Boundaries, Feedback, and Systemic Constraint
Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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Economic headroom is commonly evaluated at an individual position while prices, collateral values, regulatory rules, and other agents' actions are...
Delegation of Tax Planning Activities in a Principal-Agent Setting
Information & Contracts
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To meet their tax planning objectives, some firms rely mainly on internal tax expertise while others supplement in-house capabilities with...
Teaching Macroeconomic Dynamics: Analyzing the Carlin-Soskice Three-Equation Macro Model Using Matlab and the Routh-Hurwitz Criterion *
Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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This paper introduces a novel pedagogical and methodological framework defined by four key departures from the standard Three-Equation macroeconomic model...
Nonstandard Equilibrium Theory for Hyperreal Continuous Approximations of Lexicographic Preferences with Satiation
Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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Standard competitive equilibrium fails in economies with lexicographic preferences. The failure is not a technical inconvenience but a fundamental obstruction...
Information Design in Agriculture: Government Strategic Communications for New Variety Adoption
Information & Contracts / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics / Game Theory & Networks
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This paper examines how a government should strategically select an experimental design to assess a new crop variety's market potential...
The Impact of Sanctions and Pre-release Policies on Recidivism
Game Theory & Networks
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This paper provides an analytical model to study the effects of pre-release policies such as amnesties and pardons on crime...
Revealed Preference under Uniform Choice: Observation Rates and Budget Design
Decision & Social Choice
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We study the number and composition of budgets needed to detect a fixed departure from revealed preference under independent uniform...
Strategy-Proof and Minimally Wasteful Random Assignment
Mechanism & Market Design
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We study random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strictpreferences and outside options. When agents may...
Financial Globalization: Effects on Banks' Information Acquisition and Credit Risk
Information & Contracts
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Financial liberalization accelerates global banks' entry into new markets where host countries hope to spur investment and economic growth. However...
A Measure of Preference for Early Resolution of Uncertainty
Decision & Social Choice
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This paper develops a measure of preference for early resolution of uncertainty (PER) that parallels the Arrow-Pratt measure of risk...
Uniqueness of Recursive Utility with Unbounded Consumption and Non-Expected Utility
Decision & Social Choice
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We derive sufficient conditions for the existence, non-existence, uniqueness and global attractivity of stochastic recursive utilities. Our approach uses abstract...
Social Welfare and Price Discovery in Double Auction Markets
Mechanism & Market Design / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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The tendency of the double auction mechanism to drive prices to competitive equilibrium has been well documented in laboratory experiments...
The National Carbon Price and Welfare on Alternative Paths to Net Zero Emissions: Simple Versus Optimal Policy Rules
Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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To study the economic and welfare consequences of alternative time paths towards net zero CO2e emissions, we develop a multi-sector...
Risk Substitution in Post-PSD2 Banking: A Game-theoretic Model and Empirical Simulation Framework
Game Theory & Networks
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This paper analyzes the strategic displacement of financial fraud from technical infrastructures to human vulnerabilities following the enforcement of the...
Rational Inattention and Cooperation
Information & Contracts
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We computationally and experimentally study cooperation in the indefinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma when attention is costly. On the computational side...
Information Design in Research Funding
Information & Contracts / Decision & Social Choice
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Research funding rules affect both which projects receive support and how researchers disclose information. We study a competitive information design...
Dummy Agents in Allocation Mechanisms: Is Clearinghouse Manipulation Possible?
Mechanism & Market Design
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In a school choice setting, we study a clearinghouse that runs the announced mechanism but adds a participant who remains...
Charging-constrained fleet dispatching equilibrium in quota-regulated electrified ride-hailing markets: an aggregate game with endogenous charger queueing and nested-logit demand
Game Theory & Networks
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Electrified ride-hailing fleets in Chinese megacities operate under two constraints that conventional dispatching models treat separately, namely a municipal cap...
Correlated Equilibrium under Endogenous Feasibility: Tractability from Low-Dimensional Common Coupling
Game Theory & Networks
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Shared resource limits can make a player’s admissible responses depend on the correlation recommended by a mediator. We show that...
Emission Trading, Financial Frictions, and Transition Risks
Mechanism & Market Design / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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This paper studies the effects of permit market on transition risk, whether shift to a low carbon economy can be...
Optimal Catastrophe Bond Design and its Applications to Climate Change Risk
Information & Contracts / Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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Catastrophe bonds have become a central instrument for transferring catastrophic risk to capital markets, yet their payout structures are typically...
Prices as Signals: Joint Design of Information and Pricing
Mechanism & Market Design / Information & Contracts
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A large body of literature studies the fundamental trade-offs of product information provision. However, much of this work treats prices...
Artificial Intelligence, Aging, And the Macroeconomy A Life-Cycle General Equilibrium Model with Endogenous Fertility, AI Capital, And Longevity
Equilibrium & Mathematical Economics
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This paper studies artificial intelligence and rising longevity together, in a life-cycle general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility in which...
Optimal Insurance Under Disappointment Theory Without Prior Expectation
Information & Contracts / Decision & Social Choice
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This paper explains the long-standing low-deductible anomaly in insurance markets using a prior-free disappointment framework. Under this specification, the policyholder...
Optimal Insurance for Index Risk
Information & Contracts / Decision & Social Choice
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We develop an equilibrium model of an index-based insurance market where a policyholder with private information interacts with an insurer...
From Coercion to Cooperation: Principal-Agent Dynamics in Ancient Mediterranean Enslavement
Information & Contracts
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Enslavement in the ancient Mediterranean was structured by a striking paradox: enslavers relied on violent coercion while simultaneously cultivating cooperative...
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