Incentives motivation and the economics of information. - Campbell, Donald E. (Donald Edward) 1943- (Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Contents: Equilibrium, Efficiency, and Asymmetric Information: Asymmetric Information - - Taxi! - - Acid Rain - - Efficiency - - Equilibrium - - The Prisoner's Dilemma Game - - Repetition and Equilibrium - - Basic Models and Tools: Maximizing a Quadratic - - Overview of Calculus - - Lagrangian Multipliers - - The Composite Commodity Model - - Quasi-Linear Preferences - - Decision Making Under Uncertainty - - Insurance - - Hidden Action: Resource Allocation - - Marketable Pollution Rights - - Incentive Regulation of the Telecommunications Industry - - The Savings and Loan Debacle - - Personal Bankruptcy - - Mandatory Retirement - - Tenure and the Performance of Professors - - Pay and Performance in U.S. Public Schools - - Moral Hazard and Insurance - - Corporate Governance: A Brief Tour of Several Countries - - Partnerships - - The Owner-Employee Relationship - - The Owner-Manager Relationship in Practice - - Agency Theory - - Hidden Characteristics: Price Discrimination - - Two-Person Exchange - - The Used-Car Market - - Credit Rationing - - Bundling and Product Quality - - Job-Market Signaling - - Competitive Insurance Markets - - Auctions: Introduction - - The Vickrey Auction - - Four Basic Auction Mechanisms - - Revenue Equivalence - - Applications of the Revenue Equivalence Theorem - - Interdependent Values - - Voting and Preference Revelation: Voting Schemes - - Preference Revelation in General - - General Proof of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem - - The Revelation Principles - - Public Goods and Preference Revelation: The Economic Model - - The Pivotal Mechanism - - Groves Mechanisms - - Efficiency and Incentive Compatibility - - Matching: Students and Advisors - - College Admissions - - Hospitals and Doctors - - Allocating Dormitory Rooms - - Kidney Transplants - - General Competitive Equilibrium: Competition, Property Rights, and Prosperity - - The Arrow-Debreu Economy - - Nonconvex Economies - - Efficiency and Incentive Compatibility - - Common Property Resources.
Keywords: Social choice -- Mathematical models