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Essays on matching markets
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Essays on electricity and matching markets
… thesis contains two chapters on the Electricity Markets and a chapter on Matching Markets. In the first chapter, I study how an energy storage affects the wholesale electricity market. The transition to a low-carbon electricity system is likely to require grid-scale energy storage to smooth the …
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Essays in information elicitation and market design
… third studies 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 …
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Matching Algorithm Design in E-Commerce: Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning via Stochastic Optimization
Internet-based matching markets have gained great attention during the last decade, such as Internet advertising (matching keywords and advertisers), ridesharing platforms (pairing riders and drivers), crowdsourcing markets (assigning tasks to workers), online dating (pairing romantically attracted …
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Minimizing the Dissatisfaction Score in the Mentor Mentee Problem Using a Variation of the Deferred Acceptance Procedure
Matching games are the models for a number of economic markets. Gale and Shapley's marriage game is among the most well-known of these matching games in which the object is to pair members from two different sets, in a stable way. The marriage game is the model for building the mentor-mentee …
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Dynamic matching algorithms
… the process of connecting together, or matching, sets of two or more participants. We will focus mainly on centralized matching markets such as kidney exchange and carpooling platforms. In such platforms, the algorithm which determines whom to match and when to do so plays an important …
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Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics and Mechanism Design
… many households and firms interact across myriad markets in ways that change over time. This part of the thesis studies, empirically and theoretically, the microeconomic foundations and macroeconomic implications of hypotheses inspired by these complications: that people adopt simplified and …
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Three essays on matching over characteristics
… eliciting preferences in a two-sided, one-to-one matching market. In the second chapter, I analyze this method of eliciting preferences in a two-sided, many-to-one matching setting with different primitives on preferences. Finally, in the third chapter, I use survey data to estimate the effects of …
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Developing and Coordinating Autonomous Agents for Efficient Electricity Markets
… grid. New developments—for example, electricity markets with multiple suppliers, the integration of renewable power sources into the system, and spikier demand patterns due to, say, electric vehicles—create new challenges for efficient grid operation. Computer science is uniquely positioned to …
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Essays on the Management of Online Platforms: Bayesian Perspectives
… in prosocial contexts. The second essay, "Matching and Making in Matchmaking Platforms: A Structural Analysis," examines matchmaking platforms, focusing specifically on the problem of misaligned incentives between the platform and the agents. Based on data from the Ultimate Fighting …
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ESSAYS IN MECHANISM DESIGN
… schools: School districts that use centralized matching markets can design the schools' admissions criteria to prioritize students who benefit the most from attending the school. I study heterogeneous value-added in New York City high schools to determine which students have high value-added …
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Essays on Education Markets
… investigates educational disparities in the matching markets of high school choice and college admissions. The first chapter, joint with Ph.D. students Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng, studies the spatial inequality issue in high school choice within the context of the centralized system of …
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Generalized sequential assignment problem
… problems due to their applications in online matching markets, asset selling, and organ transplant. This dissertation studies several variations of SSAP by relaxing the main assumptions. The first part assumes that the workers' success rates are random values coming from a known distribution. …
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Essays in Market Design
… and 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 …
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Essays on Bargaining and Markets
… equilibria (MPE) are prevalent in dynamic matching and bargaining games (DMBG). I observe this inefficiency is caused by a substantial friction commonly assumed in the literature: players must exit the market after trading once. In response, this paper studies a simple heterogeneous market …