… I developed much of the material in this book in journal articles and for graduate urban
economics courses at Queen’s University, The University of Chicago, and Brown University. Most …

… Economic Theory of Auctions,9 for which this paper was originally prepared. For readers
completely new to auction theory, … to the sections into which The Economic Theory of Auctions is …

… oneperiod economy populated by investors who derive prospect theory utility from the change
in the value of their portfolios over the course of the period. In this model, prospect theory …

For three different bankruptcy problems, the 2000-year old Babylonian Talmud prescribes
solutions that equal precisely the nucleoli of the corresponding coalitional games. A rationale …

… The economic theory of regulation long ago put public interest theories of politics to rest. …
wealth), Stigler asserts with respect to economic theories of politics: "The investment motive is …

… in the evolution of economic theory, we urge students of the history of … role in economic
theory, as we shall see throughout this volume, is a theme that has faded in and out of economic …

… 1928, has recalled “that vivid interval in American economic thought when we thought that
the psychological approach might transform economics and all sorts of horizons opened up” (…

Banks face different but potentially correlated risks from outside the financial system. Financial
connections can share these risks, but they also create the means by which shocks can …

… to, the generally accepted conclusions of contemporary economic theory. More important,
they provide tools for the study of certain economic problems and bench marks for the making …

The discrete model is defined in Eq.(1) of the paper. It supposes that in any time period n= 1,
2,... N pairs are matched with replacement. If a type j (k) pair is matched with a type k (j) she …