"per install" basis--plays a major role in the mix and characteristics of auction winners, and, consequently, in their … number of such users. The distortion becomes worse as the auction gets more competitive and the number of bidders increases …

prevent the introduction of explicit randomness in auction design. We make progress on this issue by studying the impact of …

Recently, economists have developed methods for structural estimation of auction models. Many researchers object to … explore whether structural auction models can generate reasonable estimates of bidders' private information. Using bid data … from auction experiments, we estimate four alternative structural models of bidding in first-price sealed-bid auctions: 1 …

timber auctions, the Forest Service publicly announces its estimates of the tract characteristics before the auction, and …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

, regardless of the underlying economic environment. Our main result establishes that screening for collusion with safe tests is a …

heterogenous response improves screening efficiency: 1) all employees place similar value on staying in their current role; 2) the … announcement reduced the screening efficiency gap -- defined as the reduction of screening efficiency stemming from the partial …