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American Economic Journal Best Paper Prize

Rahul Deb co-authored “Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions”, the best microeconomics paper

April 2020

 

Rahul Deb
Rahul Deb

In their paper, Rahul Deb and Mallesh Pai find a major flaw in the strategy many US states are using to ensure that procurement auctions don’t have rules biased in favor of bidders from certain groups. They show that the current approach—a so-called symmetric auction—imposes virtually no restrictions on sellers’ ability to discriminate. Instead, the researchers offer their own set of simple policies governments can use to enforce fairer outcomes. (AEJ: Microeconomics, Vol 9, No. 1, February 2017.)

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2020 Newsletter Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

COVID-19 RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, NEW FACES, RETIREMENTS

YORAM HALEVY WINS THE JOHN RAE PRIZE

WINNER OF THE DOUG PURVIS MEMORIAL PRIZE

AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL BEST PAPER PRIZE

OTHER HONOURS, AWARDS AND POSITIONS

IN MEMORIAM: MEL WATKINS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

IN MEMORIAM: WAHIDUL HAQUE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

GOOD TEACHING’S LEGACY DOWN THE YEARS

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