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Consumption Quality and Employment Across the Wealth Distribution
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions
Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps Versus Matching Efficiency
Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation
Reputational Bargaining with External Resolution Opportunities
Sorting with Teams
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization
Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets
Optimal Resilience in Multitier Supply Chains
Personalized Pricing and Competition
Safe Assets
Strategic Foundations of Efficient Rational Expectations
The Comparative Statics of Sorting
Collective Brand Reputation
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle
Informed Information Design
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-to-Fail Conundrum
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets
Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects
China’s Model of Managing the Financial System
Competing Models
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem
Equilibrium Bid-Price Dispersion
Monopoly Pricing, Optimal Randomization, and Resale
Patent Screening, Innovation, and Welfare
Priority Design in Centralized Matching Markets
Social learning in nonatomic routing games
The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions
When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets?
All-Pay Oligopolies: Price Competition with Unobservable Inventory Choices
Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency
Belief Movement, Uncertainty Reduction, and Rational Updating
Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility
Informational Herding, Optimal Experimentation, and Contrarianism
Long-Term Contracting With Time-Inconsistent Agents
M Equilibrium: A Theory of Beliefs and Choices in Games
Manipulation of social choice functions under incomplete information
Market Fragmentation
Myopia and Anchoring
Neighborhood-Based Information Costs
Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets
Rational Groupthink
Robust Mechanism Design of Exchange
Simple preference intensity comparisons
Taxation under Learning by Doing
The Revelation Principle in Multistage Games
Variation Margins, Fire Sales, and Information-constrained Optimality
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment, and Growth
Diffusion Games
Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search
Endogenous Agency Problems and the Dynamics of Rents
Expert-Captured Democracies
Imitation Perfection—A Simple Rule to Prevent Discrimination in Procurement
On strategy-proofness and semilattice single-peakedness
Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium
Size versus truncation robustness in the assignment problem
Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
An impossibility theorem for wealth in heterogeneous-agent models with limited heterogeneity
Bad Habits and the Endogenous Timing of Urges
Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets
Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties
Maximality in the Farsighted Stable Set
Rational Inattention, Optimal Consideration Sets, and Stochastic Choice
Relationally equal treatment of equals and affine combinations of values for TU games
Revenue Guarantee Equivalence
Uncertainty Aversion and Systemic Risk
Assortative Matching With Large Firms
Dual random utility maximisation
Making Corruption Harder: Asymmetric Information, Collusion, and Crime
Social Norms in Social Insurance
Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets
Values for environments with externalities – The average approach
When to Drop a Bombshell
A Theory of Crowdfunding: A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard
Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa
Bilateral Trading in Networks
Bounded Rationality and Robust Mechanism Design: An Axiomatic Approach
Chinese College Admissions and School Choice Reforms: A Theoretical Analysis
Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap
Evidence Games: Truth and Commitment
Household Search and the Aggregate Labour Market
Obvious Ex Post Equilibrium
Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms
Some further properties of the cumulative offer process
Uncertainty Traps
Assignment problems with complementarities
Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade, and Growth
Life and Growth
Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade
Order-Driven Markets are Almost Competitive
Real Rigidity, Nominal Rigidity, and the Social Value of Information
Robustly Coalition-Proof Incentive Mechanisms for Public Good Provision are Voting Mechanisms and Vice Versa
A Measure of Rationality and Welfare
Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions
Core of coalition formation games and fixed-point methods
Incentive-compatible voting rules with positively correlated beliefs
Loss Aversion and Inefficient Renegotiation
Multilateral matching
Preventives versus Treatments
Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule
Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model
Strategic Mass Killings
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response
Finance and the Preservation of Wealth
Financial Networks and Contagion
Investment Incentives in Labor Market Matching
Man-Bites-Dog Business Cycles
On the Selection of Arbitrators
Path independent choice and the ranking of opportunity sets
Socialization networks and the transmission of interethnic attitudes
Student Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem
Bribing in first-price auctions
Discounted Stochastic Games With No Stationary Nash Equilibrium: Two Examples
Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change
Instantaneous Gratification
Rules with Discretion and Local Information
Sales Talk, Cancellation Terms and the Role of Consumer Protection
Smooth Ambiguity Aversion toward Small Risks and Continuous-Time Recursive Utility
The nonatomic supermodular game
Communication and Learning
Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes
Liquidity and the Threat of Fraudulent Assets
Market Power Screens Willingness-to-Pay
Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts
Price Competition under Limited Comparability
Salience Theory of Choice Under Risk
The Political Economy of Indirect Control
Adverse Selection and Convertible Bonds
Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk in a Frictional Labor Market
Bayesian Persuasion
Collateral premia and risk sharing under limited commitment
Competition among Sellers in Securities Auctions
Financial Contracting under Imperfect Enforcement
The Combinatorial Assignment Problem: Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes
The Role of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
A Theory of Firm Scope
A characterization of the maximin social ordering
Building Routines: Learning, Cooperation, and the Dynamics of Incomplete Relational Contracts
Characterizations of Pareto-efficient, fair, and strategy-proof allocation rules in queueing problems
Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
Public Goods Games, Altruism, and Evolution
Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information
Expectation Damages, Divisible Contracts, and Bilateral Investment
How Robust Is the Folk Theorem?
Informational externalities and emergence of consensus
Knowing What Others Know: Coordination Motives in Information Acquisition
Superstars and Mediocrities: Market Failure in the Discovery of Talent
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
The Vulnerability of Auctions to Bidder Collusion
Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining
Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth
Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts
Economic Insights from "Neuroeconomic" Data
How Strong Are Weak Patents?
Inductive game theory: A basic scenario
Inefficient Unemployment Dynamics under Asymmetric Information
Spatial Competition with Heterogeneous Firms
Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation
Strategic Firms and Endogenous Consumer Emulation
Can intergenerational equity be operationalized?
Consensus Building: How to Persuade a Group
Contracts and Technology Adoption
Core equivalence theorem with production
Credible Sales Mechanisms and Intermediaries
Games with Imperfectly Observable Actions in Continuous Time
Inequality and Social Discounting
Language and the Theory of the Firm
Multidimensional mechanism design: Revenue maximization and the multiple-good monopoly
On the Segmentation of Markets
Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions
Reserve price signaling
The Motivation and Bias of Bureaucrats
A Model of Forum Shopping
A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences
Emotional Agency
Forward trading and collusion in oligopoly
Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability
Persistent Distortionary Policies with Asymmetric Information
Storable Good Monopoly: The Role of Commitment
The Marriage Model with Search Frictions
Topologies on types
Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design
Existence of Equilibrium in Single and Double Private Value Auctions
How (Not) to Raise Money
Majority Rules and Incentives
Stable matchings and preferences of couples
The Economics of Clear Advice and Extreme Options
The Wrong Kind of Transparency
A Perpetual Race to Stay Ahead
Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability
An sS Model with Adverse Selection
From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development
Gradualism in Bargaining and Contribution Games
On Group Stability in Hierarchies and Networks
Resource-monotonicity for house allocation problems
The Agency Cost of Internal Collusion and Schumpeterian Growth
Waiting to Persuade
A possibility theorem on aggregation over multiple interconnected propositions
Bertrand and Walras Equilibria under Moral Hazard
Capture by Threat
Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to the Bellman Equation in the Unbounded Case
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation
Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Unidimensional Opinions
Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
Relational Incentive Contracts
Risk Reduction in Large Portfolios: Why Imposing the Wrong Constraints Helps
Bargaining and Boldness
Catching Up with the Joneses: Heterogeneous Preferences and the Dynamics of Asset Prices
Collusion via Signalling in Simultaneous Ascending Bid Auctions with Heterogeneous Objects, with and without Complementarities
Competitive Pooling: Rothschild-Stiglitz Reconsidered
Efficient Resource Allocation on the Basis of Priorities
Gradualism and Irreversibility
A Cue-Theory of Consumption
A Model of Expertise
Choice and Procrastination
Coalitional Power and Public Goods
Endogenous Enfranchisement When Groups' Preferences Conflict
Moral Hazard and Renegotiation with Multiple Agents
Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space
Strategy-proof Social Choice Correspondences
Voluntary Implementation
Ability-Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality, and Economic Growth
Basins of Attraction, Long-Run Stochastic Stability, and the Speed of Step-by-Step Evolution
Competing Mechanisms in a Common Value Environment
Creative Destruction and Firm Organization Choice
Egalitarianism and Efficiency in Repeated Symmetric Games
Luxuries Are Easier to Postpone: A Proof
Rational Debate and One-Dimensional Conflict
Social Interactions and the Institutions of Local Government
The Savers–Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
When Is Efficiency Separable from Distribution in the Provision of Club Goods?
Doing It Now or Later
Foundations of Incomplete Contracts
Markov Equilibria in Discounted Stochastic Games
On the Existence of Pure and Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria in Discontinuous Games
Optimal Saving under Poisson Uncertainty
Price Discrimination by a Many-Product Firm
Walrasian Equilibrium with Gross Substitutes
Autoregressive Conditional Duration: A New Model for Irregularly Spaced Transaction Data
Bargaining over a Menu of Wage Contracts
Competition over More Than One Prize
Conventional Contracts
Currencies and the Allocation of Risk: The Welfare Effects of a Monetary Union
Extended Pareto rules and relative utilitarianism
Financial Intermediation and Regime Switching in Business Cycles
Measuring the Social Return to R&D
Power in a Theory of the Firm
Strategic Jump Bidding in English Auctions
The Effects of Open Market Operations in a Model of Intermediation and Growth
Workers, Machines, and Economic Growth
A Competitive Distribution of Auctions
Increasing Returns in Infinite-Horizon Economies
On the Speed of Convergence in Endogenous Growth Models
Order Independence for Iterated Weak Dominance
The Evolution of Bargaining Behavior
The existence of population inequality measures
Unemployment, Migration, and Growth
How (Not) to Sell Nuclear Weapons
On randomized matching mechanisms
Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining
Rationality and Coherent Theories of Strategic Behavior
Strategy-proof and individually rational social choice functions for public good economies
Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities
Decomposition and Characterization of Risk with a Continuum of Random Variables
Endogenous Timing and the Clustering of Agents' Decisions
Multiproduct Equilibrium Price Dispersion
When Are Agents Negligible?
Market equilibrium with heterogeneous recursive-utility-maximizing agents
Bubbles and Constraints on Debt Accumulation
Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency
A Unifying Approach to Axiomatic Non-expected Utility Theories
Anticipated Utility: A Measure Representation Approach
Renegotiation in Repeated Games
Conditions for Identification in Nonparametric and Parametric Models
Entry, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure
Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations
Technological Expectations and Adoption of Improved Technology
The Identification Problem in Systems Nonlinear in the Variables
Strategic Information Transmission
Interpersonal Comparability and Social Choice Theory
The Nash Solution and the Utility of Bargaining
Liquidity Preference and Risk Aversion with an Exponential Utility Function
Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality
Smooth Preferences
A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames
Increasing Risk: I. A Definition
The Existence of a Utility Function to Represent Preferences
Utility Theory without the Completeness Axiom
Quasi-Concave Programming
Capital Accumulation and Efficient Allocation of Resources
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