Browsing by Subject "Economic theory"
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Approximately Optimal Mechanisms With Correlated Buyer Valuations
(2013)Cremer and McLean 1985 shows that if buyers valuations are suciently correlated, there is a mechanism that allows the seller to extract the full surplus from the buyers. However, in practice, we do not see the Cremer-McLean ... -
Auctions, Equilibria, and Budgets
(2012)We design algorithms for markets consisting of multiple items, and agents with budget constraints on the maximum amount of money they can afford to spend. This problem can be considered under two broad frameworks. (a) From ... -
Dynamic Mechanism Design in Complex Environments
(2020)Inspired by various applications including ad auctions, matching markets, and voting, mechanism design deals with the problem of designing algorithms that take inputs from strategic agents and return an outcome optimizing ... -
Eliciting and Aggregating Forecasts When Information is Shared
(2016)Using the wisdom of crowds---combining many individual forecasts to obtain an aggregate estimate---can be an effective technique for improving forecast accuracy. When individual forecasts are drawn from independent and identical ... -
Essays in Decision Theory
(2019)This dissertation consists of three essays in decision theory. The first chapter is an introduction. The second chapter studies individual decision making when deadlines are random. Since the quality of any decision relies ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2018)This dissertation consists of my essays in macroeconomics. In the first essay, I develop a new general equilibrium model to explain several facts about aggregate inventory that are challenging to existing inventory models. ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2022)This dissertation consists of three main chapters - chapter 2, 3, and 4. These are different research problems studying the use of information. In chapter 2, we study a mechanism design problem where the Principal hires ... -
Essays on Allocation Problems
(2022)Scarce resources are oftentimes allocated in a centralized clearinghouse based on individuals' reported preferences and objects' priorities. Prominent examples include public school assignment, allocation of dormitories, ... -
Essays on Constrained Information Acquisition
(2023)This dissertation explores the theory of constrained information acquisition and its application. I will provide theoretical models to study how economic agents who are facing limited ability to process information acquire ... -
Essays on Costly Charitable Fund-raising
(2013)In this dissertation I present a theory of charitable fund-raising in which it is costly to solicit donors. The second chapter shows how optimizing fund-raisers will affect the equilibrium level of contributions, determine ... -
Essays on Decision Theory
(2020)Decision problems could involve comparisons of alternatives according to different aspects. An alternative may be more desirable than another alternative in some of the aspects, yet less desirable in others. The multi-dimensional ... -
Essays on Decision Theory and Information Economics
(2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter one is a study in decision theory that analyzes regret and information avoidance. Chapter two is a study in information theory that characterizes the comparison of ambiguous ... -
Essays on Delegation and Mechanisms
(2018)This dissertation consists of three theoretical essays on delegation and mechanism design.Chapter 2 is co-authored with Attila Ambrus and Aaron Kolb. We investigate competition in a delegation framework. An uninformedprincipal ... -
Essays on Dynamic Tournaments
(2017)This dissertation studies dynamic tournaments and their economic and managerial implications from two different perspectives. The first half focuses on the optimal timing of information release when a tournament uses a feedback ... -
Essays on Endogenous Decision Points
(2013)This dissertation explores the implications of endognenizing the times decisions are faced for intertemporal decision-making in a variety of contexts. Chapter 1 considers a standard, expected-utility maximizer whose preferences ... -
Essays on Identification and Promotion of Game-Theoretic Cooperation
(2018)This dissertation looks at how to identify and promote cooperation in a multiagent system, first theoretically through the lens of computational game theory and later empirically through a human subject experiment. Chapter ... -
Essays on Information and Dynamic Incentives
(2023)This dissertations consists of three essays on information and dynamic incentives. In Chapter 1, I study the value of information in monotone decision problems where the action spaces are potentially multidimensional. As ... -
Essays on Information Economics
(2019)This thesis contains essays on the economics of information. In particular it focuses on specific environments where groups of individuals are faced with both uncertainty and having their main source of information on the ... -
Essays on Monetary Theory
(2023)This dissertation consists of two essays about macroeconomic theory of monetary policy. The first essay derives a general algorithm for finding optimal commitment policy when the policymaker's decision stabilizes the economy ... -
Essays on Self-Control
(2012)This dissertation concerns methods to test whether or not self-controlis costly, the form of temptation, and the affects different assumptionsabout costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowingand ...
