Columbia University in the City of New YorkEconomics

 

 

SELECTED WORK by Topics

 

Matching Theory and Market Design:

       Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms, (with Fuhito Kojima), Econometrica (forthcoming)

            Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice:  the Boston Mechanism Reconsidered, (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yosuke Yasuda), New, September 19.

Expanding ‘Choice’ in School Choice, (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yosuke Yasuda), New, December 2008,

            Supplementary notes. 

 

Information and Organizations:

Opinions as Incentives, (with Navin Kartik), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.

Optimal Incentives for Teams, (with S.-W. Yoo), American Economic Review (2001)

 

Collusion-Proof Mechanism Design:

Robustly Collusion-Proof Implementation, (with Jinwoo Kim), Econometrica, (2006)

Optimal Collusion-Proof Auctions, (with Jinwoo Kim) Journal of Economic Theory, (2009)

 

Mechanism Design with Budget Constraints:

Revenue Comparisons for Auctions When Bidders Have Arbitrary Types, (with Ian Gale), Theoretical Economics (2006)

Standard Auctions with Financially Constrained Bidders, (with Ian Gale), Review of Economic Studies (1998)

The Optimal Mechanism for Selling to Budget-Constrained Buyer, (with Ian Gale), Journal of Economic Theory (2000)

Market versus Non-Market Assignment of Ownership, (with Ian Gale), January 2009.

 

Incomplete Contracts and Hold-up:

Contractual Remedies to the Holdup Problem:  A Dynamic Perspective, (with Jozsef Sakovics).

A Dynamic Theory of Holdup, (with Jozsef Sakovics), Econometrica (2004)

Cooperative Investments and the Value of Contracting, (with Don Hausch), American Economic Review (1999)

Hold Up Problem (with Jozsef Sakovics), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,

          Second Edition.

 

Contests:

Optimal Design of Research Contests, (with Ian Gale), American Economic Review (2003)

Caps on Political Lobbying, (with Ian Gale), American Economic Review (1998)

Caps on Political Lobbying:  Reply, (with Ian Gale), American Economic Review (2006)  

 

Auctions and Procurement:

Bidding with Securities:  Comment, (with Jinwoo Kim), May 2008

Design Competition through Multidimensional Auctions, RAND Journal of Economics (1993)

Asymmetric Information about Rivals' Types in Standard Auctions: An Experiment (with Jim Andreoni and Jinwoo Kim),  Games and Economic Behavior (2007)

Competitive Procurement with Corruption, (with R. Burguet), RAND Journal of Economics (2004)

Procurement, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition.

 

Law and Economics:

Lawyer Advising in Evidence Disclosure, (with Sergei Severinov), April 2007.

Strategic Judgment Proofing, (with Kathryn Spier), RAND Journal of Economics, (2008)

Exploiting Plaintiffs through Settlement: Divide and Conquer, (with Kathryn E. Spier), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2008)

The Role of  Lockups in Takeover Contests (with Tracy Lewis), RAND Journal of Economics (2007)