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Steven Tadelis

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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545 Student Services Building, #1900

2220 Piedmont Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94720

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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77 Bastwick Street

London, EC1V 3PZ

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  • University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

  • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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1.

Incentives Versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of Procurement Contracts

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Citation 108

Incentives Versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of Procurement Contracts

Stanford University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-029
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Nov 1999
Steven Tadelis and Patrick Bajari
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Incentives Versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of Procurement Contracts

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3
Posted: 15 Aug 2001
Patrick Bajari and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Complexity, Flexibility, and the Make-or-Buy Decision

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Citation 20

Complexity, Flexibility, and the Make-or-Buy Decision

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 25 Jan 2002
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Complexity, Flexibility and the Make-or-Buy Decision

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 92, No. 2, May 2002
Posted: 02 Sep 2002
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Make-or-buy, complexity, flexibility, incentives, transaction costs

3.

A Theory of Partnerships

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 244
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 May 2002
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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partnerships, corporations, profit sharing, imperfect monitoring

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Procurement Contracts: Fixed Price vs. Cost Plus

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Mar 1999
Patrick Bajari and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Transaction Cost Economics

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2012
Steven Tadelis and Oliver E. Williamson
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group
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Citation 529

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Transaction Cost Economics

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The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism

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Citation 42

The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Oct 2001
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Name, Reputation, Career Concerns

The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, August 2002
Posted: 02 Oct 2001
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Name, Reputation, Career Concerns

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What's in a Name? Reputation as a Tradeable Asset

Working Paper No. 97-033
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Apr 1998
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Firm Reputation with Hidden Information

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Firm Reputation with Hidden Information

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Jan 2001
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Reputation as an asset, trade of names, overlapping generations

Firm Reputation with Hidden Information

Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Posted: 24 Jan 2002
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Reputation as an asset, Trade of names, Overlapping generations

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Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships

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Citation 38

Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Paper No. 03-031
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jul 2004
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Profit Sharing, Partnerships, Organizations, Firm Structure

Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 11 Nov 2004
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Partnerships, Profit Sharing, Asymmetric Information

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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

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Citation 35

Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Jan 2003
Patrick Bajari, Robert Stanton McMillan and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Cauchy Capital and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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auctions, negotiations, complexity, incomplete contracts, incentives, transaction costs

Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w9757
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2010
Patrick Bajari, Robert Stanton McMillan and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Cauchy Capital and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 372-399, 2009
Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Patrick Bajari, Robert Stanton McMillan and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Cauchy Capital and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Aug 2007
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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shame, pro-social behavior, reputation, game theory

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Bidding for Incomplete Contracts

FEEM Working Paper No. 141.04
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Nov 2004
Patrick Bajari, Stephanie Houghton and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Independent and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Citation 14

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Procurement, Construction

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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy

Journal of Comparative Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jul 2010
Avner Greif and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Institutions, Moral beliefs, Crypto-morality, Political Legitimacy, Moral education, China, Islam

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Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Jul 2011
Steven Tadelis and Florian Zettelmeyer
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

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Citation 22

Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w13350
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Aug 2007
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 507-541, September 2010
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Sep 2010
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Citation 22
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People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis

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People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3094576
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2018
Mitchell Hoffman and Steven Tadelis
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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people management, attrition, supervisors, employee surveys, productivity

People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w24360
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Feb 2018
Mitchell Hoffman and Steven Tadelis
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w20171
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Jun 2014
Tom Blake, Chris Nosko, Chris Nosko and Steven Tadelis
eBay Research Labs, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w12051
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 May 2006
Patrick Bajari, Stephanie Houghton and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Independent and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation

NBER Working Paper No. w21285
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2015
Matthew Backus, Tom Blake and Steven Tadelis
Cornell University - Department of Economics, eBay Research Labs and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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How Individuals Respond to a Liquidity Shock: Evidence from the 2013 Government Shutdown

NBER Working Paper No. w21025
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2015
Michael Gelman, Shachar Kariv, Matthew D. Shapiro, Dan Silverman and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Economics Department and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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21.

Is Sniping a Problem for Online Auction Markets?

NBER Working Paper No. w20942
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Feb 2015
Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Dimitriy Masterov, Dimitriy Masterov and Steven Tadelis
Cornell University - Department of Economics, eBay Research Labs, affiliation not provided to SSRN, eBay Research Labs and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w20830
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2015
Chris Nosko and Steven Tadelis
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions

NBER Working Paper No. w24306
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Mar 2018
Matthew Backus, Thomas Blake, Bradley Larsen and Steven Tadelis
Cornell University - Department of Economics, eBay Research Labs, Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Impact Market Design

NBER Working Paper No. w24282
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2018
Paul R. Milgrom and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Expectation, Disappointment, and Exit: Reference Point Formation in a Marketplace

NBER Working Paper No. w23022
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Jan 2017
Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Dimitriy Masterov and Steven Tadelis
Cornell University - Department of Economics, eBay Research Labs, eBay Research Labs and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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The Response of Consumer Spending to Changes in Gasoline Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w22969
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 Dec 2016
Michael Gelman, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Shachar Kariv, Dmitri Koustas, Matthew D. Shapiro, Dan Silverman and Steven Tadelis
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Reputation and Feedback Systems in Online Platform Markets

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 8, pp. 321-340, 2016
Posted: 18 Nov 2016
Steven Tadelis
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace

NBER Working Paper No. w22584
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Sep 2016
Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Steven Tadelis and Xiaolan Zhou
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
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Returns to Consumer Search: Evidence from Ebay

NBER Working Paper No. w22302
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2016
Tom Blake, Chris Nosko and Steven Tadelis
eBay Research Labs, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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