Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "JEL Classification Number: H41"

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    • A Revelation Principle for Dominant Strategy Implementation 
      Schwartz, Jesse A.; Wen, Quan (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      We introduce a perfect price discriminating (PPD) mechanism for allocation problems with private information. A PPD mechanism treats a seller, for example, as a perfect price discriminating monopolist who faces a price ...
    • Privacy, Publicity, and Choice 
      Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Previous work has focused on "privacy of type," wherein an agent privately knows an immutable characteristic. We consider "privacy of action," wherein privacy ...
    • Shared Consumption: A Technological Analysis 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      James Buchanan (Economica, 1966) has argued that Alfred Marshall's theory of jointly-supplied goods can be extended to analyze the allocation of impure public goods. This article introduces a way of modelling sharing ...
    • Status Equilibrium for Local Public Good Economies 
      van den Nouwel, Anne; Wooders, Myrna H. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We introduce a concept of status equilibrium for local public good economies. A status equilibrium specifies one status index for each agent in an economy. These indices determine agents' cost shares in any possible ...