SONDERFORSCHUNGSBEREICH 504
Rationalitätskonzepte,
Entscheidungsverhalten und
ökonomische Modellierung
No. 02-06
Contest Architecture
Moldovanu, Benny
and Sela, Aner
November 2002
Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany, email: [email protected]
Ben Gurion University, email: [email protected]
Universität Mannheim
L 13,15
68131 Mannheim
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Benny Moldovanu
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
Ex-post Implementation with Interdependent
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02-07
Benny Moldovanu
Christian Ewerhart
A Stylized Model of the German UMTS Auction
02-06
Benny Moldovanu
Aner Sela
Contest Architecture
02-05
Benny Moldovanu
Christian Ewerhart
The German UMTS Design: Insights From
Multi-Object Auction Theory
02-04
Alex Possajennikov
Cooperative Prisoners and Aggressive Chickens:
Evolution of Strategies and Preferences in 2x2
Games
02-03
Alex Possajennikov
Two-Speed Evolution of Strategies and Preferences
in Symmetric Games
02-02
Markus Ruder
Herbert Bless
Mood and the reliance on the ease of retrieval
heuristic
01-52
Martin Hellwig
Klaus M. Schmidt
Discrete-Time Approximations of the
Holmström-Milgrom Brownian-Motion Model of
Intertemporal Incentive Provision
01-51
Martin Hellwig
The Role of Boundary Solutions in Principal-Agent
Problems with Effort Costs Depending on Mean
Returns
01-50
Siegfried K. Berninghaus
Evolution of conventions - some theoretical and
experimental aspects
01-49
Dezsö Szalay
Procurement with an Endogenous Type Distribution
01-48
Martin Weber
Heiko Zuchel
How Do Prior Outcomes Affect Risky Choice?
Further Evidence on the House-Money Effect and
Escalation of Commitment
01-47
Nikolaus Beck
Alfred Kieser
The Complexity of Rule Systems, Experience, and
Organizational Learning