Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-056 // 2018

    Endogenous Worst-Case Beliefs in First-Price Auctions

    Bidding in first-price auctions crucially depends on the beliefs of the bidders about their competitors' willingness to pay. We analyze bidding behavior in a first-price auction in which the knowledge of…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-055 // 2018

    Strategies under Strategic Uncertainty

    I investigate the decision problem of a player in a game of incomplete information who faces uncertainty about the other players' strategies. I propose a new decision criterion which works in two steps.…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-054 // 2018

    Contract Design with Limited Commitment

    We consider the problem of a principal who wishes to contract with a privately informed agent and is not able to commit to not renegotiating any mechanism. That is, we allow the principal, after observing…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-053 // 2018

    Fair Cake-Cutting in Practice

    Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-052 // 2018

    Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences

    I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable…