Eric Maskin

Princeton University - Department of Economics

Albert O. Hirschman Professor

Institute for Advanced Study

Einstein Drive West Building Room 318

Princeton, NJ 08540

United States

Harvard University - Department of Economics

Professor of Economics

Littauer Center

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

50 Memorial Drive

E52-391

Cambridge, MA 02142

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Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Feb 2000
James E. Bessen and Eric Maskin
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus in the Digital Era

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3791018, Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 25 Feb 2021
Long Chen, Long Chen, Patrick Bolton, Bengt R. Holmström, Eric Maskin, Christopher A. Pissarides, A. Michael Spence, Tao Sun, Tianshu Sun, Wei Xiong, Liyan Yang, Yadong Huang, Yong Li, Xuan Luo, Yingju Ma, Shumiao Ouyang and Feng Zhu
Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessLuohan Academy, Imperial College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Stanford Graduate School of Business, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Luohan Academy, Luohan Academy, Luohan Academy, Luohan Academy, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance and Ant Financial
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big data, data economics, information economics, privacy, market competition

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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Form

Al. 187 WP 331
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Feb 1998
Yingyi Qian, Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu
Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Hong Kong
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How to Improve Ranked-Choice Voting and Democracy

Capitalism & Society, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2022)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Jun 2022
Eric Maskin
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill

NBER Working Paper No. w5718
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Jan 1997 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2022
Michael Kremer and Eric Maskin
Harvard University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Implementation and Renegotiation

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. TE366
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Eric Maskin and John Moore
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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Unemployment with Observable Aggregate Shocks

NBER Working Paper No. w0975
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2022
Sanford J. Grossman, Oliver Hart and Eric Maskin
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

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Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Mar 2001
Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Hong Kong
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Banking and finance, centralized economy, renegotiation, soft budget constraint, theory of the firm, transition

Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

Conference Paper, The Nobel Symposium in Economics - The Economics of Transition, Stockholm, September 1999
Posted: 29 Nov 1999
Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Hong Kong

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Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

Posted: 20 Jul 2001
Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Hong Kong

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soft budget constraint, renegotiation, theory of the firm, banking and finance, transition, centralized economy

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The Economics of Kenneth J. Arrow: A Selective Review

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 11, pp. 1-26, 2019
Posted: 04 Sep 2019
Eric Maskin
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Why Has Inequality Increased in China? Toward a Theory of International Matching

Division of Labour & Transaction Costs (DLTC): A Journal for the Society of Inframarginal Economics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 67-71, 2005
Posted: 21 Oct 2009
Eric Maskin
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Inequality, China, matching

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The Value of Victory: Social Origins of the Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions

Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp. 483-492, 2008
Posted: 05 Dec 2008
Wouter van den Bos, Jian Li, Tatiana Lau, Eric Maskin, Jonathan D. Cohen, P. Read Montague and Samuel M. McClure
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Princeton University - Department of Psychology, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Psychology, Baylor University - Department of Neuroscience and Stanford University - Department of Psychology

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auctions, winner's curse, bounded rationality

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Asymmetric Auctions

Posted: 26 Jul 2001
Eric Maskin and John G. Riley
Princeton University - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Equilibrium in Sealed High Bid Auctions

Posted: 26 Jul 2001
Eric Maskin and John G. Riley
Princeton University - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Uncertainty and Entry Deterrence

Posted: 16 Nov 1999
Eric Maskin
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Recent Theoretical Work on the Soft Budget Constraint

Posted: 19 Oct 1999
Eric Maskin
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Unforeseen Contingencies, Property Rights, and Incomplete Contracts

Posted: 26 May 1998
Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI)

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Incentives, Scale Economies, and Organizational Form

Posted: 19 Sep 1997
Eric Maskin, Yingyi Qian and Chenggang Xu
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management and University of Hong Kong

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