Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Marktdesign

  1. ZEW policy brief Nr. 23-09 // 2023

    Mit Digitalisierung gegen Lebensmittelverschwendung

    Das Potenzial der Tafeln wird aufgrund einer ineffizienten Lebensmittelverteilung noch nicht vollständig ausgeschöpft. In unserem Projekt mit Tafel Deutschland e. V. zeigen wir, wie die Ausgabestellen die…

  2. ZEW policy brief Nr. 23-04 // 2023

    Tapping into People’s Impatience for Better Environmental Subsidies

    This policy brief is concerned with the efficient allocation of subsidies for eco-friendly products. Examples include subsidies for cargo or e-bikes, electric cars, and energy efficient building retrofits.…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting

    In the classical cake-cutting problem, strategy-proofness is a very costly requirement in terms of fairness: for n=2 it implies a dictatorial allocation, whereas for n ≥ 3 it implies that one agent receives no…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Fair cake-cutting in practice

    Using two lab experiments, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. Although the observed subjects'…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-064 // 2022

    First Best Implementation With Costly Information Acquisition

    We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over the set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…