Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Economic games: An introduction and guide for research

    Prosocial behaviors constitute vital ingredients for all types of social interactions and relationships as well as for society at large. Corresponding to this significance, the study of prosocial behaviors has…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-002 // 2021

    Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

    This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Products liability, consumer misperceptions, and the allocation of consumers to firms

    This article shows that insulating market outcomes from consumers' misperceptions about product risk by compensating them fully for harm is not necessarily socially optimal. When firms offer products with…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Effets de réputation dans les enchères: l'inégalité des perdants

    Nous étudions un modèle à valorisations privées indépendantes, où le classement de toutes les offres est révélé à un observateur extérieur, information qui lui permet d’estimer au mieux le type des participants.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-091 // 2020

    Optimal Auctions with Signaling Bidders

    The authors study optimal auctions in a symmetric private values setting, where bidders’ care about winning the object and a receiver’s inference about their type. They reestablish revenue equivalence when…