Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 23-04 // 2023

    Tapping into People’s Impatience for Better Environmental Subsidies

    This policy brief is concerned with the efficient allocation of subsidies for eco-friendly products. Examples include subsidies for cargo or e-bikes, electric cars, and energy efficient building retrofits.…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Second opinions and diagnostic uncertainty in expert markets

    Second opinions are often proposed as a disciplining device to mitigate fraudulent behavior by experts. However, inappropriate treatment recommendations may stem from diagnostic uncertainty or inaccuracy. We…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Entry in First-price Auctions with Signaling

    We study the optimal entry fee in a symmetric private value first-price auction with signaling, in which the participation decisions and the auction outcome are used by an outside observer to infer the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-064 // 2022

    First Best Implementation With Costly Information Acquisition

    We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over the set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…