Essays in behavioral market design
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I study how centralized systems and platforms can improve their operational efficiency by taking into account the behavior of their users. To accomplish this, I combine two key elements: (1) understand users' behavior, and (2) identify sources of inefficiency and design solutions to address them. To better understand what drives user behavior, I combine techniques from behavioral operations and economics to derive models and hypotheses of how users make decisions. Then, I use tools from the econometrics literature to test these hypotheses and validate the proposed models. Finally, I combine this knowledge with tools from market design and operations to design and implement solutions that alleviate the inefficiencies identified in these markets. In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of increasing transparency in procurement platforms. The second chapter studies how the assortment composition and the history of past usage affect users' behavior in a two-sided market, and how we can take this into account to increase the number of matches generated. Finally, in the third chapter, I study the application behavior of students in the Chilean college admissions problem and propose an estimation procedure to account for their strategic behavior
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Rios Uribe, Ignacio Andres |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Saban, Daniela |
| Thesis advisor | Saban, Daniela |
| Thesis advisor | Bayati, Mohsen |
| Thesis advisor | Somaini, Paulo |
| Thesis advisor | Weintraub, Gabriel |
| Degree committee member | Bayati, Mohsen |
| Degree committee member | Somaini, Paulo |
| Degree committee member | Weintraub, Gabriel |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ignacio Andres Rios Uribe |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Ignacio Andres Rios
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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