In discrete exchange economies with possibly redundant and joint ownership, we propose new core notions in the conventional flavor by regarding endowments as rights to consume or trade with others. Our key idea is to identify self-enforcing coalitions and to redistribute their redundant property...

A planner has Atkinson-CES preference aggregation over individual outcomes and allocates W units of discrete or bounded-continuous resources among N candidate recipients. Conditional on observables, outcomes without allocations and the marginal effects of allocations are heterogeneous across...

We develop a general equilibrium model in which heterogeneous entrepreneurs produce output in the presence of financing constraints. We model granular uncertainty as the shocks that affect the uncertainty in future idiosyncratic productivity without changing the cross-sectional dispersion of...

Modern digital technology has enabled the emergence of the hybrid workforce in service organizations, where a firm uses on-demand freelancers to augment its traditional labor supply of employees. Freelancers are typically supplied by an electronic platform. How should demand be allocated between...

This study considers a mechanism design problem in which service slots are allocated over time to buyers arriving at different periods. Some buyers can accept delayed service, whereas others cannot. Buyers have a multidimensional type representing their valuation and patience level. The seller...

The allocation of decision authority by a principal to either a human agent or an artificial intelligence (AI) is examined. The principal trades off an AI's more aligned choice with the need to motivate the human agent to expend effort in learning choice payoffs. When agent effort is desired, it...

The ratio of revenue to inputs differs greatly across plants within countries such as the U.S. and India. Such gaps may reflect misallocation which hinders aggregate productivity. But differences in measured average products need not reflect differences in true marginal products. We propose a...

Today women are still struggling to climb the corporate ladder. While existing gender studies have focused on individual workers or C-suite executives, why men climb the corporate ladder faster than women remains a mystery. To fill this void in the literature, we explore gender differences and...