Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Marktdesign

  1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // forthcoming

    Worst-Case Equilibria in First-Price Auctions

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Combinatorial auctions for renewable energy – potentials and challenges

    Combinatorial auctions, which allow bidders to bid not only on individual items but also on packages of items and to express complementary and substitute relationships between items, have rarely been used for…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-051 // 2023

    Revenue Maximization with Partially Verifiable Information

    I consider a seller selling a good to bidders with two-dimensional private information: their valuation for a good and their characteristic. While valuations are non-verifiable, characteristics are partially…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-050 // 2023

    Mechanism Design for Unequal Societies

    We study optimal mechanisms for a utilitarian designer who seeks to assign a finite number of goods to a group of ex ante heterogeneous agents with unit demand. The agents have heterogeneous marginal utilities…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-043 // 2023

    Information Asymmetry and Search Intensity

    In markets where sellers’ marginal costs of production have a common component, they have informational advantage over buyers regarding those costs. This information asymmetry between sellers and buyers is…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    A market design solution to a multi-category housing allocation problem

    We study multi-category housing allocation problems: A set of objects, which is
    sorted into categories of equal size, has to be allocated to a set of individuals, such that
    everyone obtains exactly one object from…