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Homepage:	http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jledyard/
Workplace:	Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2011

1. Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxes with No Commitment
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (16)
   Also in Public Economics, University Library of Munich, Germany (2005) View citations (16)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2014)

2007

2. Contracting inside an organization: An experimental study
   Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in Experimental Economics (2007)

2004

3. Changes in the Environment and Individual Learning
   Computing in Economics and Finance 2004, Society for Computational Economics

2003

4. A general characterization of interim efficient mechanisms for independent linear environments
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (2007)
5. Computer Testbeds: The Dynamics of Groves-Ledyard Mechanisms
   Computing in Economics and Finance 2003, Society for Computational Economics View citations (5)
6. The Approximation of Efficient Public Good Mechanisms by Simple Voting Schemes
   Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (3)
   Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2000)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2002)

2002

7. Computer Testbeds and Mechanism Design
   Computing in Economics and Finance 2002, Society for Computational Economics View citations (5)

2000

8. Experimental Testbedding of a Pollution Trading System: Southern California's Reclaim Emmissions Market
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
9. Inducing Liquidity In Thin Financial Markets Through Combined-Value Trading Mechanisms
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
   See also Journal Article in European Economic Review (2002)
10. The First Use of a Combined Value Auction for Transportation Services
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Interfaces (2002)

1998

11. A New and Improved Design For Multi-Object Iterative Auctions
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Management Science (2005)
12. Mutually Destructive Bidding: The FCC Auction Design Problem
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Regulatory Economics (2000)
13. The Design of Multi-Object Multi-Round Auction
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1997

14. Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (134)
    Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    Public Economics, University Library of Munich, Germany (1994) View citations (62)
15. Repeated Implementation
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science
    Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (1997)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1998)

1996

16. Interim Efficiency in a Public Goods Problem
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
17. The Results of Some Tests of Mechanism Designs for the Allocation and Pricing of Collections of Heterogeneous
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1995

18. First Best Bayesian Privatization Mechanisms
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1994

19. The Allocation of Shared Resource within an Organization
    Purdue University Economics Working Papers, Purdue University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
    Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Design (1996)
20. Voting and Lottery Drafts as Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms
    Game Theory and Information, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (31)
    Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1994)

1993

21. Designing Organizations for Trading Pollution Rights
    Experimental, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (1994)

1987

22. The Design of Mechanisms to Allocate Space Station Resources
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1985

23. Incentive Compatibility Ten Years Later
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (5)

1983

24. A Theory of Price Formation and Exchange in Oral Auctions
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science
    Also in Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (1981)
25. The Pure Theory of Large Two Candidate Elections
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Public Choice (1984)

1978

26. The Allocation of Public Goods with Sealed-Bid Auctions: Some Preliminary Evaluations
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (1)
27. The Existence of Efficient and Incentive Compatible Equilibria with Public Goods
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1980)

1976

28. A Partial Characterization of Organizations and Environments Which are Consistent With Incentive Compatibility
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science
29. Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the 'Free Rider Problem'
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (60)
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1977)
30. Some Limitations of Demand Revealing Processes
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in Public Choice (1977)
31. The Incentives for Price-Taking Behavior When Consumers Have Incomplete Information
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science

1975

32. On the Incentive Problem with Public Goods
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (5)

1974

33. An Incentive Mechanism for Efficient Resource Allocation in General Equilibrium with Public Goods
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (2)
34. Decentralized Disequilibrium Trading and Price Formation
    Discussion Papers, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science View citations (2)

Undated

35. Allocating Uncertain and Unresponsive Resources
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
36. Incentive Compatibility
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
37. Incentive Compatibility and Incomplete Information
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1978)
38. Information Aggregation in Two-Candidate Elections
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
39. Market Failure
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
40. Market design for fishery IFQ programs
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
41. Political Competition in a Model of Economic Growth; Some Theoretical Results
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Economic Theory (1996)
42. The Design of Coordination Mechanisms and Organizational Computing
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
43. The Economics of Space Station
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
44. The Paradox of Voting and Candidate Competition: A General Equilibrium Analysis
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
45. The Scope of the Hypothesis of Bayesian Equilibrium
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1986)
46. Theories of Price Formation and Exchange in Double Oral Auctions
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
47. Using Computerized Exchange Systems to Solve an Allocation Problem in Project Management
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Journal Articles

2014

1. Optimal Dynamic Nonlinear Income Taxes with No Commitment
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16, (2), 196-221 View citations (18)
   See also Working Paper (2011)
2. The Speed of Information Revelation and Eventual Price Quality in Markets with Insiders: Comparing Two Theories
   Review of Finance, 2014, 18, (1), 1-22 View citations (18)

2013

3. Efficiency of continuous double auctions under individual evolutionary learning with full or limited information
   Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2013, 23, (3), 539-573 View citations (15)

2012

4. Individual evolutionary learning, other-regarding preferences, and the voluntary contributions mechanism
   Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96, (9-10), 808-823 View citations (30)

2011

5. A behavioral model for mechanism design: Individual evolutionary learning
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 78, (3), 374-395 View citations (24)

2010

6. An Experimental Test of Flexible Combinatorial Spectrum Auction Formats
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2, (1), 39-57 View citations (33)
7. Prediction Markets: Alternative Mechanisms for Complex Environments with Few Traders
   Management Science, 2010, 56, (11), 1977-1996 View citations (22)

2009

8. An experimental test of combinatorial information markets
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 69, (2), 182-189 View citations (14)
9. Introduction to the issues in honor of Leonid Hurwicz
   Review of Economic Design, 2009, 13, (1), 1-1

2007

10. A general characterization of interim efficient mechanisms for independent linear environments
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 133, (1), 441-466 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
11. Call market book information and efficiency
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007, 31, (6), 1971-2000 View citations (24)
12. Contracting inside an organization: An experimental study
    Experimental Economics, 2007, 10, (2), 143-167 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
13. Introduction to the special issue on optimal income taxation
    International Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 3, (1), 1-3

2005

14. A New and Improved Design for Multiobject Iterative Auctions
    Management Science, 2005, 51, (3), 419-434 View citations (53)
    See also Working Paper (1998)

2004

15. Scaling Up Learning Models in Public Good Games
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2004, 6, (2), 203-238 View citations (41)

2002

16. Inducing liquidity in thin financial markets through combined-value trading mechanisms
    European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (9), 1671-1695 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
17. The First Use of a Combined-Value Auction for Transportation Services
    Interfaces, 2002, 32, (5), 4-12 View citations (60)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
18. The approximation of efficient public good mechanisms by simple voting schemes
    Journal of Public Economics, 2002, 83, (2), 153-171 View citations (54)
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2000

19. A Market-Based Mechanism for Allocating Space Shuttle Secondary Payload Priority
    Experimental Economics, 2000, 2, (3), 173-195 View citations (11)
20. Concurrent trading in two experimental markets with demand interdependence
    Economic Theory, 2000, 16, (3), 511-528 View citations (18)
21. Mutually Destructive Bidding: The FCC Auction Design Problem
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2000, 17, (3), 205-28 View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper (1998)

1999

22. A Characterization of Interim Efficiency with Public Goods
    Econometrica, 1999, 67, (2), 435-448 View citations (46)

1998

23. Repeated Implementation
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1998, 83, (2), 308-317 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper (1997)

1997

24. Experiments Testing Multiobject Allocation Mechanisms
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1997, 6, (3), 639-675 View citations (33)

1996

25. Political competition in a model of economic growth: Some theoretical results (*)
    Economic Theory, 1996, 7, (2), 191-205 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper
26. The allocation of a shared resource within an organization
    Review of Economic Design, 1996, 2, (1), 163-192 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (1994)

1995

27. Introduction
    Games and Economic Behavior, 1995, 10, (1), 1-5

1994

28. Designing organizations for trading pollution rights
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1994, 25, (2), 167-196 View citations (59)
    See also Working Paper (1993)
29. Voting and Lottery Drafts as Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms
    Review of Economic Studies, 1994, 61, (2), 327-355 View citations (34)
    See also Working Paper (1994)

1989

30. Allocating Uncertain and Unresponsive Resources: An Experimental Approach
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1989, 20, (1), 1-25 View citations (88)

1986

31. Elections and reputations
    Public Choice, 1986, 50, (1), 93-99
32. Incentive Compatible Space Station Pricing
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 274-79
33. The scope of the hypothesis of Bayesian equilibrium
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1986, 39, (1), 59-82 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper

1984

34. The pure theory of large two-candidate elections
    Public Choice, 1984, 44, (1), 7-41 View citations (232)
    See also Working Paper (1983)

1980

35. The Existence of Efficient and Incentive Compatible Equilibria with Public Goods
    Econometrica, 1980, 48, (6), 1487-1506 View citations (26)
    See also Working Paper (1978)

1978

36. Incentive compatibility and incomplete information
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1978, 18, (1), 171-189 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper

1977

37. Incentive Compatible Behavior in Core-Selecting Organizations
    Econometrica, 1977, 45, (7), 1607-21 View citations (8)
38. Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the "Free Rider" Problem
    Econometrica, 1977, 45, (4), 783-809 View citations (334)
    See also Working Paper (1976)
39. Reply to comments by Tidemand and Tullock and Greenberg, Mackay and Tideman on some limitations of demand revealing processes
    Public Choice, 1977, 29, (2), 139-143
40. Some limitations of demand revelaing processes
    Public Choice, 1977, 29, (2), 107-124 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (1976)

1972

41. Nonvoting and the existence of equilibrium under majority rule
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1972, 4, (2), 144-153 View citations (44)

1971

42. A Convergent Pareto-Satisfactory Non-Tatonnement Adjustment Process for a Class of Unselfish Exchange Environments
    Econometrica, 1971, 39, (3), 467-99
43. The relation of optima and market equilibria with externalities
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1971, 3, (1), 54-65 View citations (1)

1970

44. Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Statistical Hypothesis Test: An Example from Urban Transportation
    Environment and Planning A, 1970, 2, (3), 323-339

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