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"Comments on the RGGI Market Design." Submitted to RGGI, Inc. by ISO New England and NYISO, 15 November 2007.

"The 700 MHz Spectrum Auction: An Opportunity to Protect Competition In a Consolidating Industry" (with Andrzej Skrzypacz and Robert Wilson), submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 13 November 2007.

"Forward Reliability Markets: Less Risk, Less Market Power, More Efficiency" (with Steven Stoft) Utilities Policy, forthcoming, 2008.

"Colombia’s Forward Energy Market," Working Paper, University of Maryland, August 2007. [Presentation, Letter to NordPool]

"Comments on the FCC’s Proposed Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auction 73" (with Gregory Rosston, Andrzej Skrzypacz, and Robert Wilson), 31 August 2007. [Frontline Wireless Filing, Reply Comments]

"An Overview of Combinatorial Auctions" (with Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg), ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 7, 3-14, 2007.

"The Effect of Incumbent Bidding in Set-Aside Auctions: An Analysis of Prices in the Closed and Open Segments of FCC Auction 35" (with Allan T. Ingraham and Hal J. Singer) Telecommunications Policy, 32, 273-290, 2008.

Economist Letter to NTIA on 700 MHz Spectrum Auction (with Andrzej Skrzypacz, Simon Wilkie, and Robert Wilson), 30 July 2007.

"Essential Entry: Revenues in the 700 MHz Spectrum Auction," University of Maryland, 13 July 2007.

"Revenues in the 700 MHz Spectrum Auction" (with Andrzej Skrzypacz and Robert Wilson), Working Paper, University of Maryland, 27 June 2007.

"Economic Comments on the Design of the 700 MHz Spectrum Auction" (with Andrzej Skrzypacz and Robert Wilson), submitted with testimony of James L. Barksdale to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 14 June 2007. [Initial FCC Filing]

"Product Design for Colombia’s Regulated Market," Working Paper, University of Maryland, June 2007. [Presentation]

"Market-Based Alternatives for Managing Congestion at New York’s LaGuardia Airport," (with Michael O. Ball, Lawrence M. Ausubel, Frank Berardino, George Donohue, Mark Hansen, and Karla Hoffman), in Optimal Use of Scarce Airport Capacity, Proceedings of AirNeth Annual Conference, The Hague, April 2007.

"Colombia Firm Energy Market," (with Steven Stoft), Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007.

"Simulation of the Colombian Firm Energy Market," (with Steven Stoft and Jeffrey West), Working Paper, University of Maryland, December 2006.

"Spectrum Auction Design," Working Paper, University of Maryland, April 2007. [Presentation]

"Why We Need to Stick with Uniform-Price Auctions in Electricity Markets," (with Steven Stoft), Electricity Journal, 20:1, 26-37, 2007.

"The Convergence of Market Designs for Adequate Generating Capacity," (with Steven Stoft), White Paper, California Electricity Oversight Board, April 2006.

Combinatorial Auctions, (with Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg) MIT Press, 2006.

"Introduction to Combinatorial Auctions," (with Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg) in Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, and Richard Steinberg (eds.), Combinatorial Auctions, 1-13, MIT Press, 2006.

"The Clock-Proxy Auction: A Practical Combinatorial Auction Design," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom) in Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, and Richard Steinberg (eds.), Combinatorial Auctions, Chapter 5, 115-138, MIT Press, 2006. [Presentation]

"Simultaneous Ascending Auctions," in Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, and Richard Steinberg (eds.), Combinatorial Auctions, Chapter 4, 99-114, MIT Press, 2006.

"Dynamic Auctions in Procurement," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) in Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga, and Giancarlo Spagnolo (eds.) Handbook of Procurement, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"How Best to Auction Oil Rights," in Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds.), Escaping the Resource Curse, Chapter 5, 114-151, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

"New England’s Forward Capacity Auction," University of Maryland, June 2006.

"A Capacity Market that Makes Sense," (with Steven Stoft) Electricity Journal, 18, 43-54, August/September 2005. [Presentation]

"Review of the Proposed Reserve Markets in New England," (with Hung-po Chao and Robert Wilson) White Paper, Market Design Inc., January 2005.

"Auctioning Many Divisible Goods," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) Journal of the European Economic Association, 2, 480-493, April-May 2004.

"Competitive Bidding Behavior in Uniform-Price Auction Markets," Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2004.

"Vickrey Auctions with Reserve Pricing," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) Economic Theory, 23, 493-505, April 2004. Reprinted in Charalambos Aliprantis, et al. (eds.), Assets, Beliefs, and Equilibria in Economic Dynamics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 355-368, 2003.

"Competitive Bidding Behavior in Uniform-Price Auction Markets," Report before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, March 2003.

"Rebuttal Addendum: Assessment of Submissions of the California Parties," Report before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, March 2003.

"Electricity Market Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January, 2003.

"Collusive Bidding in the FCC Spectrum Auctions," (with Jesse Schwartz) Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 1:1, www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol1/iss1/art11, 2002.  [Presentation]

"Demand Reduction and Inefficiency in Multi-Unit Auctions," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) Working Paper, University of Maryland, July 2002. [Presentation]

"Spectrum Auctions," in Martin Cave, Sumit Majumdar, and Ingo Vogelsang, eds., Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., Chapter 14, 605-639, 2002.

"Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How and Why to Auction Not Grandfather," (with Suzi Kerr) Energy Policy, 30, 333-345, 2002.

"Pricing in the California Power Exchange Electricity Market: Should California Switch from Uniform Pricing to Pay-as-Bid Pricing?" (with Alfred E. Kahn, Robert H. Porter, and Richard D. Tabors), Blue Ribbon Panel Report, California Power Exchange, January 2001.

"Uniform Pricing or Pay-as-Bid Pricing: A Dilemma for California and Beyond," (with Alfred E. Kahn, Robert H. Porter, and Richard D. Tabors), Electricity Journal, 70-79, July 2001.

"How Affirmative Action at the FCC Auctions Decreased the Deficit," (with Ian Ayres) in Ian Ayres, ed., Pervasive Prejudice? Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 315-395, 2001. 

"Lessons Learned from the UK 3G Spectrum Auction." In U.K. National Audit Office Report, The Auction of Radio Spectrum for the Third Generation of Mobile Telephones, Appendix 3, October 2001.

"A Review of Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program," Journal of Economic Literature, 38, 627-633, September 2000.

"Eliminating the Flaws in New England's Reserve Markets," (with Jeffrey Lien) Working Paper, University of Maryland, March 2000. [Presentation]

"Review of the Reserves and Operable Capability Markets: New England's Experience in the First Four Months," White Paper, Market Design Inc., November 1999. [Figures and Tables | Presentation]

"Collusive Bidding: Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Auctions," (with Jesse Schwartz) Journal of Regulatory Economics, 17, 229-252, May 2000.

"The Optimality of Being Efficient," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) Working Paper, University of Maryland, March 2001. [Presentation]

"The Role of the ISO in U.S. Electricity Markets: A Review of Restructuring in California and PJM," (with Lisa Cameron) Electricity Journal, 71-81, April 1999.

"A Review of ISO New England's Proposed Market Rules," (with Robert Wilson) White Paper, Market Design Inc., September 1998. [Presentation]

Maryland Auction Conference, May 29-31, 1998.

"Auctioning Securities," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel) Working Paper, University of Maryland, March 1998.

Simultaneous Ascending Auctions with Package Bidding, (with John McMillan, Paul Milgrom, Bradley Miller, Bridger Mitchell, Daniel Vincent, and Robert Wilson) Report to the Federal Communications Commission, March 1998.

"Efficient Relocation of Spectrum Incumbents," (with Evan Kwerel and John Williams) Journal of Law and Economics, 41, 647-675, October 1998.

"The Distributional Effects of Carbon Regulation," (with Suzi Kerr) in Thomas Sterner (ed.) The Market and the Environment, Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, chapter 12, 1999.

"Ascending Auctions," European Economic Review, 42:3-5, 745-756, May 1998. [Presentation]

"The Efficiency of the FCC Spectrum Auctions," Journal of Law and Economics, 41, 727-736, October 1998.

"Auctions and Takeovers," New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Peter Neuman (ed.), London: MacMillan Press, 1, 122-125, 1998.

Package Bidding for Spectrum Licenses, (with John McMillan, Paul Milgrom, Bradley Miller, Bridger Mitchell, Daniel Vincent, and Robert Wilson) Report to the Federal Communications Commission, October 1997.

Auction Design Enhancements for Non-Combinatorial Auctions, (with John McMillan, Paul Milgrom, Bradley Miller, Bridger Mitchell, Daniel Vincent, and Robert Wilson) Report to the Federal Communications Commission, September 1997.

"The FCC Spectrum Auctions: An Early Assessment," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 6:3, 431-495, 1997. Reprinted in Donald L. Alexander (ed.), Telecommunications Policy, Praeger Publishers, 1997.

"Synergies in Wireless Telephony: Evidence from the Broadband PCS Auctions," (with Lawrence M. Ausubel, R. Preston McAfee, and John McMillan) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 6:3, 497-527, 1997. [Data]

"Auction Design for Standard Offer Service," (with Andrew Parece and Robert Wilson) Working Paper, University of Maryland, July 1997. [Auction Rules]

"Using Auctions to Divest Generation Assets," (with Lisa J. Cameron and Robert Wilson) Electricity Journal, 10:10, 22-31, December 1997.

"Deficit Reduction Through Diversity: How Affirmative Action at the FCC Increased Auction Competition," (with Ian Ayres) Stanford Law Review, 48:4, 761-815, 1996.

"Money Out of Thin Air: The Nationwide Narrowband PCS Auction," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 4, 267–343, 1995.

"The Case for Affirmative Auction: From Conscience to Coffers," (with Ian Ayres) New York Times, 21 May 1995, F13.

"Using Auction Theory to Inform Takeover Regulation," (with Alan Schwartz) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 7, 27–53, 1991.

"Dissolving a Partnership Efficiently," (with Robert Gibbons and Paul Klemperer) Econometrica, 55, 615–632, 1987. Reprinted in Paul Klemperer (ed.), The Economic Theory of Auctions, Volume 2, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000.


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