Philipp Strack

Yale, Department of Economics

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New Haven, CT 06520-8268

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1.

Until the Bitter End: On Prospect Theory in a Dynamic Context

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Sebastian Ebert and Philipp Strack
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH and Yale, Department of Economics
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Behavioral Economics, Disposition Effect, Irreversible Investment, Prospect Theory, Skewness Preference, Time-Inconsistency

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Too Proud to Stop: Regret in Dynamic Decisions

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Too Proud to Stop: Regret in Dynamic Decisions

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 15 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Philipp Strack and Paul Viefers
Yale, Department of Economics and A.T. Kearney GmbH
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Optimal stopping, Dynamic behavior, Regret

Too Proud to Stop: Regret in Dynamic Decisions

DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1401
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2017
Paul Viefers and Philipp Strack
A.T. Kearney GmbH and Yale, Department of Economics
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Optimal stopping, Dynamic behavior, Regret

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The Wald Problem and the Relation of Sequential Sampling and Ex-Ante Information Costs

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019
Stephen Morris and Philipp Strack
MIT and Yale, Department of Economics
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Sequential Sampling, Entropy Cost, Information Acquisition

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Stochastic Choice and Optimal Sequential Sampling

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 May 2015 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2017
Drew Fudenberg, Philipp Strack and Tomasz Strzalecki
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale, Department of Economics and Harvard University - Harvard Institute of Economic Research
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Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 16 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2017
Paul Heidhues, Botond Koszegi and Philipp Strack
Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Central European University (CEU) - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Optimal Stopping with Private Information

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 08 May 2014
Thomas Kruse and Philipp Strack
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic Mechanism Design, Optimal Stopping, Dynamic Implementability, Posted-Price Mechanism

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Rational Groupthink

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2018
Matan Harel, Elchanan Mossel, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz
University of Geneva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale, Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Bayesian learning

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Turning Up the Heat: The Discouraging Effect of Competition in Contests

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2019
Dawei Fang, Thomas H. Noe and Philipp Strack
University of Gothenburg - Center For Finance, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Yale, Department of Economics
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all-pay contests, contest structures, competitiveness

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Gambling in Dynamic Contests

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2014
Christian Seel and Philipp Strack
Maastricht University and Yale, Department of Economics
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discontinuous games, dynamic contests, relative performance pay, risk-taking behavior

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Optimal Control of an Epidemic through Social Distancing

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Optimal Control of an Epidemic through Social Distancing

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2020
Thomas Kruse and Philipp Strack
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Yale, Department of Economics
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Social Distancing, SIR model, Time-Optimal Control of an Epidemic

Optimal Control of an Epidemic through Social Distancing

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2229
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
Thomas Kruse and Philipp Strack
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Yale, Department of Economics
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Social Distancing, SIR model, Time-Optimal Control of an Epidemic

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Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020
Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu and Philipp Strack
Arizona State University (ASU), University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II and Yale, Department of Economics
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Majorization, Extreme Points, Bayesian Persuation, Border's Theorem

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Continuous Time Contests with Private Information

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2013
Christian Seel and Philipp Strack
Maastricht University and Yale, Department of Economics
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Contests, All-Pay Auctions, Silent Timing Games

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Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs

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Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 22 May 2015
Paul Heidhues, Sven Rady and Philipp Strack
Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), University of Bonn and Yale, Department of Economics
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Strategic Experimentation, Two-Armed Bandit, Bayesian Learning, Information Externality, Mediated Communication, Cheap Talk

Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10634
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Jun 2015
Paul Heidhues, Sven Rady and Philipp Strack
Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), University of Bonn and Yale, Department of Economics
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Bayesian learning, cheap talk, information externality, mediated communication, strategic experimentation, two-armed bandit

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Dynamic Revenue Maximization: A Continuous Time Approach

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Dynamic Revenue Maximization: A Continuous Time Approach

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1953
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jul 2014
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Mechanism design, Dynamic auctions, Repeated sales

Dynamic Revenue Maximization: A Continuous Time Approach

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1953R3
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 May 2015
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic mechanism design, Repeated sales, Stochastic flow, Flat rates, Two-part Tariffs, Leasing

Dynamic Revenue Maximization: A Continuous Time Approach

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1953RR
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Mechanism design, Dynamic auctions, Repeated sales, Impulse response function, Stochastic flow

Dynamic Revenue Maximization: A Continuous Time Approach

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1953R
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Mechanism design, Dynamic auctions, Repeated sales

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Never, Ever Getting Started: On Prospect Theory Without Commitment

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2018
Sebastian Ebert and Philipp Strack
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH and Yale, Department of Economics
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Prospect Theory, Risk-Taking, Skewness Preference, Time- Inconsistency

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Risk-Taking in Contests: The Impact of Fund-Manager Compensation on Investor Welfare

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2016
Philipp Strack
Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic Contests, Risk-Taking Behavior, All-Pay Contest, Managed Funds, Endogenous Risk, Black-Scholes

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Identifying Present Bias from the Timing of Choices

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Paul Heidhues and Philipp Strack
Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Yale, Department of Economics
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Timeinconsistency, Hyperbolic Discounting, Naivite, Sophistication, Identification, Task-Completion

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Revenue Maximizing Mechanisms with Strategic Customers and Unknown, Markovian Demand

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2016
Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu and Philipp Strack
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II and Yale, Department of Economics
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Revenue Management, Strategic Buyers, Name Your Own Price, Mechanism Design

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Deadlines in Stochastic Contests

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 52, p. 134-142
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2014
Matthias Lang, Christian Seel and Philipp Strack
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Economics, Maastricht University and Yale, Department of Economics
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Contest, All-Pay Auction, Research Tournament

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Bitcoin: An Impossibility Theorem for Proof-of-Work Based Protocols

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Bitcoin: An Impossibility Theorem for Proof-of-Work Based Protocols

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2204R, 2019
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Nov 2019
Jacob Leshno and Philipp Strack
Chicago Booth and Yale, Department of Economics
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Bitcoin, Random Selection, Proportional Selection Rule, Impossibility Theorem

Bitcoin: An Impossibility Theorem for Proof-of-Work based Protocols

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2204, February 2019
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Oct 2019
Jacob Leshno and Philipp Strack
Chicago Booth and Yale, Department of Economics
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Bitcoin, Random Selection, Proportional Selection Rule, Impossibility Theorem

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A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2018
Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu and Philipp Strack
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II and Yale, Department of Economics
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Active Learning with Misspecified Beliefs

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2016
Drew Fudenberg, Gleb Romanyuk and Philipp Strack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Yale, Department of Economics
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A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations

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A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2020
Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack and Mengxi Zhang
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II, Yale, Department of Economics and Institute for Microeconomics, University of Bonn
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Auctions, Mechanism Design, Investments, Endogenous Valuations

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Convergence in Misspecified Learning Models with Endogenous Actions

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Jan 2019
Paul Heidhues, Botond Koszegi and Philipp Strack
Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Central European University (CEU) - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Limit Points of Endogenous Misspecified Learning

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2021
Drew Fudenberg, Giacomo Lanzani and Philipp Strack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Misspecified Learning, Berk-Nash Equilibrium

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Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack and Mengxi Zhang
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II, Yale, Department of Economics and Institute for Microeconomics, University of Bonn
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Auction Design, Non-Expected Utility, Non-Linear Probability Weighting, Constant Risk Aversion

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Expectation-Based Loss Aversion and Strategic Interaction

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Simon Dato, Andreas Grunewald, Daniel Mueller and Philipp Strack
University of Bonn, University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, Saarland University and Yale, Department of Economics
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Non-Cooperative Games, Expectation-Based Loss Aversion, Reference-Dependent Preferences, Mixed Strategies

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Progressive Participation

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Progressive Participation

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2189
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Aug 2019
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic Mechanism Design, Observable Arrival, Unobservable Arrival, Repeated Sales, Interim Incentive Constraints, Interim Participation Constraints, Stopping Problem, Option Value, Progressive Participation

Progressive Participation

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2189R
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Jan 2020
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic Mechanism Design, Observable Arrival, Unobservable Arrival, Repeated Sales, Interim Incentive Constraints, Interim Participation Constraints, Stopping Problem, Option Value, Progressive Participation

Progressive Participation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15111
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Dirk Bergemann and Philipp Strack
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Dynamic Mechanism Design, Interim Incentive Constraints, Interim Participation Constraints, Observable Arrival, Option value, Progressive Participation, Repeated Sales, Stopping Problem, Unobservable Arrival

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An Inverse Optimal Stopping Problem for Diffusion Processes

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Apr 2017
Thomas Kruse and Philipp Strack
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Yale, Department of Economics
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Optimal Stopping, Reflected Stochastic Processes, Dynamic Mechanism Design, Dynamic Implementability

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Efficient Dynamic Allocation with Strategic Arrivals

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Jan 2015
Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu and Philipp Strack
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Bonn - Chair of Economic Theory II and Yale, Department of Economics
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Pathwise Concentration Bounds for Misspecified Bayesian Beliefs

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2021
Drew Fudenberg, Giacomo Lanzani and Philipp Strack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Matching in Dynamic Imbalanced Markets

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 25 May 2019
Itai Ashlagi, Afshin Nikzad and Philipp Strack
Stanford University - Department of Management Science & Engineering, University of Southern California, Department of Economics and Yale, Department of Economics
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Kidney Exchange, Dynamic Matching

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Optimal Disclosure of Information to a Privately Informed Receiver

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2021
Ozan Candogan and Philipp Strack
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Yale, Department of Economics
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Information design, private information, laminar partitions

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A Note on the Smoothness of Choice Probabilities in the DDM Model

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Dec 2018
Philipp Strack
Yale, Department of Economics
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