Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. Expertises // 2020

    The Implication of School Admission Rules for Segregation and Educational Inequality

    In this research project we investigate how the design of school assignment rules affects social segregation and its implications for social inequality. The context of our study is the Hungarian school system,…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-032 // 2020

    What Happens when Separate and Unequal School Districts Merge?

    We study the welfare effects of school district consolidation, i.e. the integration of disjoint school districts into a centralised clearinghouse. We show theoretically that, in the worst-case scenario, district…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-014 // 2020

    A Small Volume Reduction that Melts Down the Market: Auctions with Endogenous Rationing

    Auctions with endogenous rationing have been introduced to stimulate competition. Such (procurement) auctions reduce the volume put out to tender when competition is low. This paper finds a strong negative…

  4. ZEW expert brief No. 20-03 // 2020

    Homeoffice in Zeiten von Corona

  5. Refereed Journal // 2020

    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…