Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2002
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Publications
"Convergence to Perfect Competition of a Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Market with Two-sided Incomplete Information and Exogenous Exit Rate", with Mark Satterthwaite, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 63(2), 2008, pp. 435-467.
"An Empirical Study of Auction Revenue Rankings: The Case of Municipal
Bonds", The Rand Journal of Economics, Vol 37(4), 2006, pp. 1005-1022.Working paper version.
Read the discussion of this paper and related empirical papers on auctions in Chapter 6 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization, vol. 3, edited by K. Hendricks and R. Porter. The draft of the chapter is available here.
"Dynamic Matching,Two-sided Incomplete Information, and Participation Costs: Existence and Convergence to Perfect Competition" with Mark Satterthwaite, Econometrica, Vol 75(1), 2007, pp. 155-200. This paper is on the reading list of a micro theory course at Yale University.
"Path Independent Inequality Measures (with J. Foster), Journal of Economic Theory, 91, 2000
"A General Class of Additive Decomposable Inequality Measures" (with J. Foster), Economic Theory, 14, 1999.
Working Papers
"The Rate of Convergence to Perfect Competition of Matching and Bargaining Mechanisms", with Adam Chi Leung Wong, revised and resubmitted, JET Mathematica notebook
"What Model for Entry in First-Price Auctions? A Nonparametric Approach", with Vadim Marmer and Pai Xu, revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
This paper is on the syllabus of a graduate course at Wisconsin
"Quantile-Based Nonparametric Inference for First-Price Auctions",with Vadim Marmer, submitted
"Bilateral Matching and Bargaining with Private Information", with Adam Chi Leung Wong, revised and resubmitted, Games and Economic Behavior. 2008 version
"Identification in First Price Auctions when the Number of Potential Bidders is Unobservable", with Adam Chi Leung Wong, revise and resubmit, Games and Economic Behavior
"Are There Common Values in BC Timber Sales? A Tail-Index Nonparametric Test", with Jonathan B. Hill, submitted; mathematica notebook