Matt Van
Essen’s Home Page
Thank you
for visiting my homepage.
I am a 4th
year economics graduate student at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
My main
research focuses on the theory of public
goods, externalities, and experimental
economics.
My
dissertation title is “Implementing Lindahl Allocations—Incorporating
Experimental
Observations into Mechanism Design Theory.”
Dissertation Abstract
Other
Non-Dissertation Research:
- Role
of experience on the empirical validity of mixed
strategy Nash equilibrium
- Dynamic
stability issues in public good mechanisms
- Role
of negative reciprocity in the mitigation of the holdup
problem
- Using
dynamic auctions as public good provision mechanisms
- Economics
of traffic and traffic congestion
- Non-standard applications of the theory of public goods
Some
more
information about my various projects can be found by clicking the
research
link below.
Also on
this
site you will find: a copy of my curriculum vitae; links to my class
syllabi; and solutions to class problem sets.
CV
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