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Three Empirical Studies in Market Design
(2009)
Market design is the development of mechanisms that improve market efficiency and build on an understanding of the interaction between human behavior and market rules. The first chapter considers the sale of a charitable ...
Self-regulation, productivity, and nonlinear pricing. Three essays on quality production in agricultural markets
(2006-05-16)
In this dissertation I analyze the quality choices of a group of producers. In the first essay I use mechanism design to study the interaction of asymmetric information and the democratic process in the quality choices of ...