Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 1: Eleventh World Congress: 58 (Econometric Society Monographs, Series Number 58)
Cambridge University Press, 11/2/2017
EAN 9781108400008, ISBN10: 1108400000
Paperback, 346 pages, 23.3 x 16.4 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This is the first of two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2015. These papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics. The book includes surveys and interpretations of key developments in economics and econometrics, and discussion of future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. These volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline, written by leading specialists in their fields. The first volume includes theoretical and applied papers addressing topics such as dynamic mechanism design, agency problems, and networks.
1. Dynamic mechanism design
robustness and endogenous types Alessandro Pavan
2. Learning, experimentation and information design Johannes Hörner and Andrzej Skrzypacz
3. Dynamic selection and reclassification risk
theory and empirics Igal Hendel
4. Discussion of 'agency problems' Bernard Salanie
5. Recent developments in matching theory and their practical applications Fuhito Kojima
6. What really matters in designing school choice mechanisms Parag A. Pathak
7. Networks and markets Sanjeev Goyal
8. Econometrics of network models ÃÂureo de Paula
9. Networks in economics
remarks Rachel E. Kranton.