Can words get in the way? The effect of deliberation in collective decision making

M Iaryczower, X Shi, M Shum - Journal of Political Economy, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
We quantify the effect of deliberation on the decisions of US appellate courts. We estimate a
model in which strategic judges communicate before casting their votes and then compare …

Latent indices in assortative matching models

W Diamond, N Agarwal - Quantitative Economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A large class of two‐sided matching models that include both transferable and non‐
transferable utility result in positive assortative matching along a latent index. Data from …

Robust confidence regions for incomplete models

LG Epstein, H Kaido, K Seo - Econometrica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Call an economic model incomplete if it does not generate a probabilistic prediction even
given knowledge of all parameter values. We propose a method of inference about unknown …

Unobserved heterogeneity in matching games with an application to venture capital

JT Fox, DH Hsu, C Yang - 2012 - nber.org
Agents in two-sided matching games vary in characteristics that are unobservable in typical
data on matching markets. We investigate the identification of the distribution of unobserved …

A point decision for partially identified auction models

G Aryal, DH Kim - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This article proposes a decision-theoretic method to choose a single reserve price for
partially identified auction models, such as Haile and Tamer, using data on transaction …

To score or not to score? Estimates of a sponsored search auction model

YW Hsieh, M Shum, S Yang - … Model (February 1, 2015). USC-INET …, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Using data from" WebsiteX", one of the largest online marketplaces in the world, we estimate
a structural model of sponsored search auctions where bidders have heterogeneous click …

[图书][B] School Choice, Competition and Ethnic Segregation in Lancashire: Evidence from structural models of two-sided matching

M Weldon - 2016 - search.proquest.com
This thesis uses administrative data from the National Pupil Database (NPD) to examine the
phenomenon of ethnic sorting into English secondary schools. The thesis investigates the …

[PDF][PDF] Bayesian inference and non-Bayesian prediction and choice: foundations and an application to entry games with multiple equilibria

LG Epstein, K Seo - Manuscript. Boston Univ, 2011 - people.bu.edu
We generalize de Finettims exchangeable Bayesian model to accommo% date ambiguity.
As a central motivating example, we consider a policy maker facing a cross% section of …

Econometric Analysis of Two-Sided Matching Markets

YW Hsieh - 2012 - search.proquest.com
Many economic systems can be described as two-sided matching markets, with labor and
marriage markets being the leading examples. Although the theoretic work can be dated …

De Finetti Meets Ellsberg

LG Epstein, K Seo - Research in Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper outlines an exchangeable non-Bayesian model of preference generalizing the
Savage/de Finetti classic model of subjective expected utility preference with an …