Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-052 // 2018

    Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences

    I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable…

  2. ZEWnews English edition // 2018

    11/12 - 2018

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Social Integration in Two-Sided Matching Markets

    When several two-sided matching markets merge into one, it is inevitable that some agents will become worse off if the matching mechanism used is stable. I formalize this observation by defining the…

  4. ZEWnews English edition // 2018

    07/08 - 2018

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Strategies Under Distributional and Strategic Uncertainty

    I investigate the decision problem which arises in a game of incomplete information under two different types of uncertainty - uncertainty about other players’ type distributions and about other players’…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-003 // 2018

    The Fall and Rise of Market Power in Europe

    This paper presents an analysis of the recent developments of average market power in Europe by using a broad firm-level database for EU member states. To indicate competitive pressure at the firm-level, markups…