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Allocation, Information and Markets

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. John Eatwell
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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Efficient Allocation

    • Stanley Reiter
    Pages 1-30

  3. Adverse Selection

    • Charles Wilson
    Pages 31-34

  4. Asymmetric Information

    • A. Postlewaite
    Pages 35-38

  5. Auctions

    • Vernon L. Smith
    Pages 39-53

  6. Bidding

    • Robert Wilson
    Pages 54-63

  7. The Coase Theorem

    • Robert D. Cooter
    Pages 64-70

  8. Decentralization

    • E. Malinvaud
    Pages 71-76

  9. Economic Organization and Transaction Costs

    • Steven N. S. Cheung
    Pages 77-82

  10. Exchange

    • Robert Wilson
    Pages 83-93

  11. Experimental Methods in Economics

    • Vernon L. Smith
    Pages 94-111

  12. Externalities

    • J.-J. Laffont
    Pages 112-116

  13. Fraud

    • Edi Karni
    Pages 117-119

  14. Hidden Actions, Moral Hazard and Contract Theory

    • Roger Guesnerie
    Pages 120-131

  15. Implicit Contracts

    • Costas Azariadis
    Pages 132-140

  16. Incentive Compatibility

    • John O. Ledyard
    Pages 141-151

  17. Incentive Contracts

    • Edward P. Lazear
    Pages 152-162

  18. Incomplete Contracts

    • Oliver Hart
    Pages 163-179

  19. Incomplete Markets

    • Charles Wilson
    Pages 180-184

  20. Market Failure

    • John O. Ledyard
    Pages 185-190
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This is an extract from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This volume concentrates on the topic of allocation information and markets.
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