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Workplace:Department of Economics, Harvard University, (more information at EDIRC)
Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2007

  1. Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads
    See Also Journal Article in International Journal of Game Theory (2008)
  2. Making Markets Thick: Designing Rules for Offers and Acceptances
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
  3. The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  4. The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations
  5. What Have We Learned From Market Design?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2008)

2006

  1. Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
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    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2006) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) Downloads View citations
  2. If you are offered the Right of First Refusal, Should you accept? An Investigation of Contract Design
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
  3. Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) Downloads
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2007)

2005

  1. Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    Working Papers, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics (2005) Downloads View citations
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2005) Downloads View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2005) Downloads View citations
    Microeconomics, EconWPA (2005) Downloads View citations
  2. Pairwise Kidney Exchange
    Game Theory and Information, EconWPA Downloads View citations
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) Downloads View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2004) Downloads View citations
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2004) Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (2005)

2004

  1. Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
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    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2004) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) Downloads View citations
  2. The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market
    Experimental, EconWPA Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2006)
  3. Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls
    Working Papers, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics Downloads View citations
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    Microeconomics, EconWPA (2004) Downloads View citations

2003

  1. An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
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    Discussion Papers on Strategic Interaction, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group (2002) Downloads View citations
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH (2003) Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2005)
  2. Kidney Exchange
    Game Theory and Information, EconWPA Downloads
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2004)
  3. Late and Multiple Bidding in Second Price Internet Auctions: Theory and Evidence Concerning Different Rules for Ending an Auction
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Games and Economic Behavior (2006)
  4. The collapse of a medical clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  5. Unraveling reduces the scope of an entry level labor market: Gastroenterology with and without a centralized match
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics Downloads View citations
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2001) Downloads

2001

  1. The Timing of Bids in Internet Auctions: Market Design, Bidder Behavior, and Artificial Agents
    Discussion Papers on Strategic Interaction, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Downloads View citations

2000

  1. Last Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Internet
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1999

  1. The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1999)

1985

  1. Risk Aversion in Bargaining: an Experimental Study
    Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (1988)

Undated

  1. Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet
    Discussion Papers on Strategic Interaction, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Downloads
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2002)

Journal Articles

2008

  1. Deferred acceptance algorithms: history, theory, practice, and open questions
    International Journal of Game Theory, 2008, 36, (3), 537-569 Downloads
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
  2. What Have We Learned from Market Design?
    Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (527), 285-310 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2007)

2007

  1. Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (3), 828-851 View citations
  2. Learning and equilibrium as useful approximations: Accuracy of prediction on randomly selected constant sum games
    Economic Theory, 2007, 33, (1), 29-51 Downloads
  3. Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21, (3), 37-58 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)

2006

  1. Late and multiple bidding in second price Internet auctions: Theory and evidence concerning different rules for ending an auction
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2006, 55, (2), 297-320 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  2. The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation
    American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (4), 1029-1042 View citations
  3. The dynamics of law clerk matching: An experimental and computational investigation of proposals for reform of the market
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006, 30, (3), 457-486 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2004)

2005

  1. A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 376-380 Downloads View citations
  2. An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2005, 36, (4), 890-907 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  3. Pairwise kidney exchange
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2005, 125, (2), 151-188 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
  4. The Boston Public School Match
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 368-371 Downloads View citations
  5. The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and Why Such Failures Are Rare)
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (3), 878-889 Downloads View citations
  6. The Gastroenterology Fellowship Market: Should There Be a Match?
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 372-375 Downloads View citations
  7. The New York City High School Match
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 364-367 Downloads View citations

2004

  1. Kidney Exchange
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119, (2), 457-488 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)

2003

  1. Bargaining under a deadline: evidence from the reverse ultimatum game
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2003, 45, (2), 347-368 Downloads View citations
  2. Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games
    Experimental Economics, 2003, 6, (2), 181-207 Downloads View citations
  3. Unraveling Reduces Mobility in a Labor Market: Gastroenterology with and without a Centralized Match
    Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111, (6), 1342-1352 Downloads View citations

2002

  1. Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (4), 1093-1103 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper
  2. Predictive value and the usefulness of game theoretic models
    International Journal of Forecasting, 2002, 18, (3), 359-368 Downloads View citations
  3. The Economist as Engineer: Game Theory, Experimentation, and Computation as Tools for Design Economics
    Econometrica, 2002, 70, (4), 1341-1378 Downloads View citations

2000

  1. The Dynamics Of Reorganization In Matching Markets: A Laboratory Experiment Motivated By A Natural Experiment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (1), 201-235 Downloads View citations

1999

  1. The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design
    American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (4), 748-780 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1999)
  2. The effect of adding a constant to all payoffs: experimental investigation, and implications for reinforcement learning models
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1999, 39, (1), 111-128 Downloads View citations
  3. Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets--In Search of Advice for Participants
    Econometrica, 1999, 67, (1), 21-44 View citations

1998

  1. Learning in High Stakes Ultimatum Games: An Experiment in the Slovak Republic
    Econometrica, 1998, 66, (3), 569-596 View citations
  2. Predicting How People Play Games: Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games with Unique, Mixed Strategy Equilibria
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (4), 848-81 Downloads View citations

1997

  1. Turnaround Time and Bottlenecks in Market Clearing: Decentralized Matching in the Market for Clinical Psychologists
    Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 105, (2), 284-329 View citations
  2. Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1997, 76, (2), 362-411 Downloads View citations

1994

  1. Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (4), 992-1044 Downloads View citations
  2. Lets Keep the Con out of Experimental Econ.: A Methodological Note
    Empirical Economics, 1994, 19, (2), 279-89 View citations

1992

  1. Considerations of Fairness and Strategy: Experimental Data from Sequential Games
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, (3), 865-88 Downloads View citations
  2. Theory and Misbehavior in First-Price Auctions: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (5), 1379-91 Downloads View citations

1991

  1. A Natural Experiment in the Organization of Entry-Level Labor Markets: Regional Markets for New Physicians and Surgeons in the United Kingdom
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (3), 415-40 Downloads View citations
  2. Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (5), 1068-95 Downloads View citations
  3. Game Theory as a Part of Empirical Economics
    Economic Journal, 1991, 101, (404), 107-14 Downloads View citations
  4. Incentives in Two-Sided Matching with Random Stable Mechanisms
    Economic Theory, 1991, 1, (1), 31-44 View citations
  5. Sorority Rush as a Two-Sided Matching Mechanism
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (3), 441-64 Downloads View citations

1990

  1. Random Paths to Stability in Two-Sided Matching
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (6), 1475-80 Downloads View citations

1989

  1. An Experimental Study of Sequential Bargaining
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (3), 355-84 Downloads View citations
  2. Risk Aversion and the Relationship between Nash's Solution and Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of Sequential Bargaining
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1989, 2, (4), 353-65 View citations
  3. The College Admissions Problem Revisited
    Econometrica, 1989, 57, (3), 559-70 Downloads View citations
  4. Two-sided matching with incomplete information about others' preferences
    Games and Economic Behavior, 1989, 1, (2), 191-209 Downloads View citations

1988

  1. Interior points in the core of two-sided matching markets
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1988, 45, (1), 85-101 Downloads View citations
  2. Laboratory Experimentation in Economics: A Methodological Overview
    Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 974-1031 Downloads View citations
  3. Risk Aversion in Bargaining: An Experimental Study
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1988, 1, (1), 101-24 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1985)
  4. The Deadline Effect in Bargaining: Some Experimental Evidence
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (4), 806-23 Downloads View citations

1987

  1. Risk aversion and bargaining *: Some preliminary results
    European Economic Review, 1987, 31, (1-2), 265-271 Downloads View citations

1986

  1. A note on job matching with budget constraints
    Economics Letters, 1986, 21, (2), 135-138 Downloads
  2. On the Allocation of Residents to Rural Hospitals: A General Property of Two-Sided Matching Markets
    Econometrica, 1986, 54, (2), 425-27 Downloads View citations
  3. On the Non-transferable Utility Value: A Reply [Values for Games without Sidepayments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts]
    Econometrica, 1986, 54, (4), 981-84 Downloads

1985

  1. A Note on Risk Aversion in a Perfect Equilibrium Model of Bargaining
    Econometrica, 1985, 53, (1), 207-11 Downloads View citations
  2. Common and conflicting interests in two-sided matching markets
    European Economic Review, 1985, 27, (1), 75-96 Downloads
  3. The college admissions problem is not equivalent to the marriage problem
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1985, 36, (2), 277-288 Downloads View citations

1984

  1. Misrepresentation and stability in the marriage problem
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1984, 34, (2), 383-387 Downloads View citations
  2. Stability and Polarization of Interests in Job Matching
    Econometrica, 1984, 52, (1), 47-57 Downloads View citations
  3. The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory
    Journal of Political Economy, 1984, 92, (6), 991-1016 Downloads View citations

1983

  1. Expectations and Reputations in Bargaining: An Experimental Study
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (3), 362-72 Downloads View citations

1982

  1. Incentive compatibility in a market with indivisible goods
    Economics Letters, 1982, 9, (2), 127-132 Downloads View citations
  2. Risk Aversion and Nash's Solution for Bargaining Games with Risky Outcomes
    Econometrica, 1982, 50, (3), 639-47 Downloads View citations
  3. Scale changes and shared information in bargaining: An experimental study
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1982, 3, (2), 157-177 Downloads
  4. The Role of Information in Bargaining: An Experimental Study
    Econometrica, 1982, 50, (5), 1123-42 Downloads View citations

1981

  1. Sociological versus strategic factors in bargaining
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1981, 2, (2), 153-177 Downloads View citations
  2. Strike Two: Labor-Management Negotiations in Major League Baseball
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1981, 12, (2), 413-425 Downloads

1980

  1. Values for Games without Sidepayments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts
    Econometrica, 1980, 48, (2), 457-65 Downloads View citations

1979

  1. Proportional Solutions to the Bargaining Problem
    Econometrica, 1979, 47, (3), 775-77 Downloads View citations

1978

  1. The Nash Solution and the Utility of Bargaining
    Econometrica, 1978, 46, (3), 587-94 Downloads View citations

1977

  1. Independence of irrelevant alternatives, and solutions to Nash's bargaining problem
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1977, 16, (2), 247-251 Downloads View citations
  2. The Shapley Value as a von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility
    Econometrica, 1977, 45, (3), 657-64 Downloads View citations
  3. Utility functions for simple games
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1977, 16, (2), 481-489 Downloads View citations
  4. Weak versus strong domination in a market with indivisible goods
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1977, 4, (2), 131-137 Downloads View citations

Chapters

1992

  1. Two-sided matching
    Chapter 16 in Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, 1992, vol. 1, pp 485-541 Downloads View citations
 
 
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