John William Hatfield

University of Texas at Austin

Associate Professor

Austin, TX 78712

United States

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1.

On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 1103, 2013, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 122, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2012-11, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 433
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2015
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
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derivatives, disclosure, empty voting, hidden ownership, morphable ownership, corporate governance, shareholder rights and obligations, financial markets, securities laws, law and economics, competitive equilibrium, core outcome, corporate voting, shareholder voting, regulatory arbitrage, securities

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Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 05 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
John William Hatfield, Fuhito Kojima and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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Strategy-proofness, Investment efficiency, Providing marginal rewards, Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanisms, Mechanism design

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Et Tu, Agent? Commission-Based Steering in Residential Real Estate

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 17 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023
Jordan M. Barry, Will Fried and John William Hatfield
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Independent Researcher and University of Texas at Austin
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residential real estate, real estate agency, agency cost, steering, Collaborative Industries, antitrust, homeownership, principal-agent problem, law and economics

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Pills and Partisans: Understanding Takeover Defenses

160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 633 (2012), Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 407, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 98
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2015
Jordan M. Barry and John William Hatfield
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Texas at Austin
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law and economics, takeovers, takeover defenses, corporate governance, imperfect information, adverse selection, agency theory, market for corporate control, poison pill, securities regulation, regulatory competition, economic federalism, directors, shareholders, managers

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Coasean Keep-Away: Voluntary Transaction Costs

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-149
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Mar 2014
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
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Coase Theorem, transaction costs, private ordering, efficiency, liability rules, property rules, remedies, reasonable use

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Collusion in Brokered Markets

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-023 (2019)
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 10 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2020
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Texas-Austin
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Real estate, Repeated games, Collusion, Antitrust, Brokered markets

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Improving Schools Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach

Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2016
John William Hatfield, Fuhito Kojima and Yusuke Narita
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Department of Economics
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Matching, School Choice, School Competition, Stability, Efficiency

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A Simple Theory of Vampire Attacks

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2023
John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
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Loyalty/Rewards Programs, Web3, Vampire Attacks, Competition

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Federalism, Taxation, and Economic Growth

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 1929
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 May 2006
John William Hatfield
University of Texas at Austin
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public policy, taxation

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Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 21-007, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 108, 2023
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2023
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Texas-Austin
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Antitrust, antitrust law, antitrust theory, law and economics, collusion, collaboration, collaborative industries, regulation, game theory, repeated games, IPOs, initial public offerings, underwriters, real estate, real estate agents, realtors, syndicated markets, syndication, brokers

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The Design of Debt Clearing Markets: Clearinghouse Mechanisms in Pre-Industrial Europe

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Lars Boerner and John William Hatfield
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economic History and University of Texas at Austin
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market design, matching, history of decentralized clearinghouses

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Shareholder Decisionmaking in the Presence of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-161
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2014
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
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Empty Voting, Hidden/Morphable Ownership, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Voting

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To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-439, 62 William & Mary Law Review 723 (2021)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2023
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
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Personalized Law, regulation, regulatory avoidance, regulatory arbitrage, law and economics, law and technology, law and artificial intelligence, futurism, moral hazard, elicitation, signaling, privacy

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Existence of Equilibrium in Large Matching Markets With Complementarities

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Nov 2018
Eduardo M. Azevedo and John William Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Texas at Austin
Downloads 178 (289,178)
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Matching With Contracts, Stability, Core, Competitive Equilibrium, Large Markets

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Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 2050
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Mar 2010
John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University
Downloads 171 (299,389)
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auctions, economic theory, microeconomics

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Many-to-Many Matching with Max-Min Preferences

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2012
John William Hatfield, Fuhito Kojima and Yusuke Narita
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Department of Economics
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many-to-many two-sided matching, stability, pareto efficiency, monotonicity, strategy-proofness, max-min preferences

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Collusion in Markets with Syndication

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 18-009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-349
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 26 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2023
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, University of Texas-Austin and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads 151 (332,466)
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Collusion, Antitrust, IPO underwriting, Syndication, Repeated games

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The Economics of Debt Clearing Mechanisms

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Oct 2010
Lars Boerner and John William Hatfield
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economic History and University of Texas at Austin
Downloads 137 (359,243)
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market design, matching, history of decentralized clearinghouses

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Federal Competition and Economic Growth

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 2038, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Oct 2009
John William Hatfield and Katrina Kosec
University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University
Downloads 128 (378,329)
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Economic Development, Public Policy

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Full Substitutability

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 19-016, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-40
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Aug 2018
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, University of Melbourne, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
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Price Controls, Non-Price Quality Competition, and the Nonexistence of Competitive Equilibrium

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 02 Sep 2015
John William Hatfield, Charles R. Plott and Tomomi Tanaka
University of Texas at Austin, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and The World Bank
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price controls, non-price competition, quality, non-existence, matching, assignment

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Revenue Decentralization, the Local Income Tax Deduction, and the Provision of Public Goods

National Tax Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013
John William Hatfield
University of Texas at Austin
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Local tax deduction, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal externality, Public good provision

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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

NBER Working Paper No. w14628
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022
John William Hatfield and Gerard Padró i Miquel
University of Texas at Austin and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Chain Stability in Trading Networks

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 May 2018
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, University of St. Andrews - School of Economics and Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Downloads 73 (548,719)
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Matching, Stability, Networks, Substitutability

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Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Feb 2018
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Westkamp
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
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Matching with contracts, Stability, Strategy-proofness, Substitutability, Size monotonicity, Cumulative offer mechanism

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Facilitating Collusion with Spot-Price Contracting

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Aug 2023
John William Hatfield and Richard Lowery
University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas-Austin
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Repeated games, Collusion, Antitrust, Agricultural economics

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Online Appendix to 'Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms'

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Feb 2018
John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Westkamp
University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
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Matching with contracts, Stability, Strategy-proofness, Substitutability, Size monotonicity, Cumulative offer mechanism