We connect two large bodies of scientific inquiry. First, important theories in the social sciences establish that human preferences are reference-dependent. Second, a separate field of research documents substantial differences in preferences and attitudes across genders. Specifically, we...

We survey the uses of combinatorial auctions that have been deployed in practice. We specify the key representational, computational, and economic aspects of deployed combinatorial auctions. Finally, we discuss behavioral economics considerations on both sides of the market, and the interrelated...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Idea for In 100 Years -- 1 The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit -- 2 Through the Darkness to a Brighter Future -- 3 The Cone of Uncertainty of the Twenty-First Century's Economic Hurricane -- 4 Wealth and the Self-Protection Society -- 5 Keynes,...

A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports,...

This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...

The analysis in this paper searches for individual and group determinants of learning behavior in Monty Hall's Three Door problem examined in Friedman (1998). The results show that the size of monetary incentives, individuals' initial abilities, and social interactions with others are all...

This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...