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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"market design"”.
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Essays in Market Design
… proposes new mechanisms for two-sided matching markets, with a particular focus on the role played by diversity preferences and affirmative action. In the first chapter, "Diversity Preferences, Affirmative Action and Choice Rules'', I introduce a framework to analyze diversity preferences and …
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CO2 Market Design and Operation.
This dissertation examines market design and operation within the empirical context of CO2 markets. Six case studies are presented which describe business interactions during the design and operation of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Emissions Trading Scheme and the United Kingdom's Carbon …
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Revenue considerations in market design
This thesis is about the design and analysis of smart markets for selling commodities and resources. Examples include combinatorial auctions, markets for selling resources, and markets for selling cloud services. The objective here is to maximize the revenue for the market designer. This problem is …
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Approaches to education market design
… of essays about how to improve education markets through analyzing data generated by such markets. In chapter 1, I start with looking at how families decide which school to attend in a school choice system. Though such systems are designed assuming that families make well-informed choices …
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Competitive Microgrid Electricity Market Design
… the true nature of the microgrid electricity market. In this research, a comprehensive microgrid electricity market has been designed, taking into account several unique characteristics of this new market place. This thesis establishes an economic rationale to the vision of wide-scale …
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Three essays in applied market design
The market design approach to economics recognizes that markets do not arise naturally but are rather an amalgamation of various rules and norms. From this perspective, an economist can reverse engineer the rules that are consequential to a functioning market and evaluate the effects of those rules …
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Essays in auction and market design
(cont.) the auctioneer are analyzed.
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Water Urbanism: Fish Market Design Proposal
… whole mosaic of the bay . The Maine Avenue Fish Market, sitting just upstream to the now being developed Southwest Waterfront, seems a perfect choice for this endeavor. This market, a small urban waterfront space, is ideal for exploring ideas and solutions to avoid water pollution by stormwater, …
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Essays on Market Design and Auction Theory
This dissertation consists of three essays on market design and auction theory. In the first chapter, we develop a model of decentralized college admissions in which students' preferences for colleges are uncertain, and colleges must incur costs when their enrollments exceed their capacities. …
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Essays in information elicitation and market design
… a model of decentralized two-sided matching markets. In ""Mechanisms for making accurate decisions in biased crowds,"" I study decision rules for finding the true answer to a binary question using the opinions of biased agents. Taking majority rule as a baseline, I study peer-prediction …
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Essays in Environmental and Healthcare Market Design
This thesis studies the design of government intervention in environmental and healthcare markets. The first chapter, joint with Karl M. Aspelund, studies how asymmetric information inf luences the performance and design of government-established markets for conservation. Market mechanisms aim to …
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Market design opportunities for an evolving power system
… hour. New challenges arise in electricity markets with a large share of uncertain and variable renewable energy. We investigate some of these challenges and identify economic opportunities and policy changes to mitigate them. We study electricity markets by focusing on the preferences and …
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A distributed online financial market : design, implementation, and experiments
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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INTEGRATED DYNAMIC DEMAND MANAGEMENT AND MARKET DESIGN IN SMART GRID
… interaction among all new sources of energy and market, besides managing supplies and demands in the system while meeting network's limitations. First, an appropriate energy system mechanism is proposed to motivate use of green and renewable energies while addressing current system's …
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Essays in informal finance and market design under weak institutions
… Using Community Information: Mechanism Design In The Field -- 3. Voluntary Market Design: Dominant Individual Rationality.
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Optimization Methods for Distribution Systems: Market Design and Resiliency Enhancement
… and responsive loads can be coordinated in a market environment to contribute to efficiency of electricity consumption and fair electricity tariffs, incentivizing proactive agents' participation in the distribution system. Resiliency and market applications for distribution systems are highly …
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Improving Labor Market Design to Reduce Labor Abuse in the Global Supply Chain in Southeast Asia
… evidence-based policy suggestion. Second, we design an algorithm of joint matching and learning for the recruitment platform built by Issara, named "Golden Dreams", that aims to make it easier for workers and recruiters to find suitable matches, while using data generated by this process to …
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Improving the performance of regional electricity markets in developing countries : the case of the Southern African Power
… Realizing these benefits requires careful market design supported by technical, economic and institutional analysis of the system as it exists today and as it will likely evolve in the future. In this dissertation, I demonstrate this integrated approach through a detailed study of the …
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Financing the "Valley of Death" : an evaluation of incentive schemes for global health businesses
… is even more skewed, with significantly greater market risks and fewer exit opportunities for an investor. As a result, the "valley of death" phenomenon for a global health company developing a therapeutic for a neglected disease is even more pronounced As a result, private sector funding for …
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Stochastic Optimization approaches for trading on financial and energy markets
… also that the approach is robust with respect to market modeling errors. The SMPC approach is then extended to hedging derivative contracts (such as plain vanilla and exotic options) in the presence of transaction costs. After proving that the least-squares approach is no longer suitable to handle …
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