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Equitable resource allocation using all-pay auctions
… formats for buying and selling goods. There are all kinds of mechanisms covered in the ambit of auction theory, ranging from sealed bid auctions like first-price or second price auctions, to open bid auctions like the English or Dutch auctions. One interesting kind of auction is the all-pay …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Contests
… design with multiple heterogeneous players. We allow the contest designer to have one or multiple/mixed objectives, which includes the following parts: the total effort; the winner's effort; the maximal effort; and the winning probability of the strongest player. We provide a one-size-fits-all …
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
This thesis studies issues in auctions and contests. The seller of an object and the organizer of a contest have many instruments to improve the revenue of the auction or the efficiency of the contest. The three essays in this dissertation shed light on these issues. Chapter 2 investigates how a …
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Essays in Political Economy
… Chapter 2, ``Discovery through Trial Balloons,'' examines how correlation between different projects affects information disclosure by a principal who designs a bundle of projects that an agent can then choose to approve. Chapter 3, ``Strategic Opinion-Writing on Appellate Courts,'' …