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List of Papers by Topics

 

Market Design/Matching

 

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

Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms, (with Fuhito Kojima), (2008)

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

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

How to Divide the Possession of a Football? (with Terrence Hendershott), Economics Letters (2008)

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

 

Auction Theory

 

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

Expected Revenue of All-Pay Auctions and First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions with Budget Constraints, (with Ian Gale), Economics Letters (1996)

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

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

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

Revenue comparisons for auctions when bidders have arbitrary types, (with Ian Gale), Theoretical Economics (2006)

Asymmetric information about rivals' types in standard auctions, (with Jinwoo Kim), Games and Economic Behavior (2006)

Asymmetric information about rivals' types in standard auctions: An experiment, (with James Andreoni and Jinwoo Kim), Games and Economic Behavior (2007)

How to Divide the Possession of a Football? (with Terrence Hendershott), Economics Letters (2008)

The Role of Lockups in Takeover Contests, (with Tracy Lewis), Rand Journal of Economics (2008)

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

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

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

Contract Theory/Mechanism Design

 

Revolving Doors and Optimal Tolerance for Agency Collusion, Rand Journal of Economics (1995)

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

Mechanism Design with a Liquidity Constrained Buyer: The 2×2 Case, (with Ian Gale), European Economic Review (1999)

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

Can a Contract Solve Hold-Up When Investments Have Externalities?: A Comment on De Fraja, Games and Economic Behavior (2000)

Optimal Incentives for Teams, (with Seungwon Yoo), American Economic Review (2001)

Joint Liability and Peer Monitoring under Group Lending, Contributions in Theoretical Economics (2002)

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

A Dynamic Theory of Hold-Up, (with Jozsef Sakovics), Econometrica (2004)

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

Contractual Remedies to the Holdup Problem:  A Dynamic Perspective, (with Jozsef Sakovics) (2008)

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

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

Corporate Finance

 

Section 365 and Mandatory Bankruptcy Rules and Inefficient Continuance, (with Alan Schwartz), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1999)

The Role of Lockups in Takeover Contests, (with Tracy Lewis), Rand Journal of Economics (2008)

Strategic judgment proofing, (with Kathryn E. Spier), Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Experimental Economics

Asymmetric information about rivals' types in standard auctions: An experiment, (with James Andreoni and Jinwoo Kim), Games and Economic Behavior (2007)

Industrial Organization

 

Customer Return Policies for Experience Goods, Journal of Industrial Economics (1996)

 

Buyer Alliances and Managed Competition, (with Ian Gale), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, (1997)

Law and Economics

Decoupling Liability: Optimal Incentives for Care and Litigation, (with A. Mitchell Polinsky), Rand Journal of Economics (1991)
The Role of Precedents in Repeated Litigation, (with Jong Goo Yi), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1993)

Equilibrium Formation of Class Action Suits, Journal of Public Economics (1996)

Optimal Use of Information in Litigation: Does Withholding Information Deter Frivolous Suits? (with Dietrich Earnhart),  Rand Journal of Economics (1997)

Section 365 and Mandatory Bankruptcy Rules and Inefficient Continuance, (with Alan Schwartz), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1999)

Contract Damages and Cooperative Investments, (with T-Y Chung), Rand Journal of Economics (1999)

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

The Economics of Collective Negotiation in Pretrial Bargaining, International Economic Review (2002)

A Dynamic Theory of Hold-Up, (with Jozsef Sakovics), Econometrica (2004)

The Role of Lockups in Takeover Contests, (with Tracy Lewis), Rand Journal of Economics (2008)

Exploiting plaintiffs through settlement: Divide and conquer, (with Kathryn E. Spier), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2008)

Strategic judgment proofing, (with Kathryn E. Spier), Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Market versus Non-Market Assignment of Ownership, (with Ian Gale), Law and Economics Workshop (2007)

Lawyer Advising in Evidence Disclosure, (with Sergei Severinov), Discussion Papers (2007)

Political Economy/Contest Theory

 

Rent Dissipation When Rent Seekers Are Budget Constrained, (with Ian Gale), Public Choice (1997)

Contests with Discontinuous Success Functions, (with Ian Gale) in Recent Developments in the Theory of Contests, ed. Michael Baye, Advances in Applied Microeconomics (1998)

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

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

Difference-Form Contests and the Robustness of All-Pay Auctions, (with Ian Gale), Games and Economic Behavior (2000)

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

Opinions as incentives, (with Navin Kartik), Discussion Papers (2007)