Mechanism design: theory and application to welfare-to-work programs

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Publication date 2008
Journal Aenorm
Volume | Issue number 15 | 60
Pages (from-to) 43, 45-46
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract In October 2007, Leonid Hurwicz , Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". My aim is to give you a flavor of what mechanism design theory is and how we can apply it in practice. More in particular, I will apply insights from the theory to the design of welfare-to-work markets, i.e., markets in which governments contract firms in order to help unemployed people finding a job.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.aenorm.eu/editions/?edt=17&art=167
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