Report NEP-MIC-2026-09-21

This is the archive for NEP-MIC, a report on new working papers in the area of Microeconomics. Jing-Yuan Chiou issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Elliot Lipnowski & Doron Ravid, 2026, "Communicating About Endogenous Issues," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.00380, Aug.
• Philipp Peitler, 2026, "Rational Bargaining: Characterization and Implementation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.19932, Sep.
• Christian Basteck & Lars Ehlers, 2026, "Strategy-Proof and Minimally Wasteful Random Assignment," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.27261, Aug.
• Potarca, Matthias, 2026, "Auctions versus posted prices with costly entry and outside options," Working Paper Series in Economics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management, number 178.
• Laurenz Marstaller, 2026, "Recommendation Design, Pricing, and Regulation," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany, number 430, Sep.
• Yi Liu, 2026, "On the Complexity of Bayesian Signal Processing," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.29840, Aug.
• Yosuke Hashidate, 2026, "Social Preferences and Cooperation: Beliefs, Robustness, and the Limits of Altruism," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.11374, Sep.
• Igal Milchtaich, 2026, "Agnostic Sequential Rationality," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.25731, Aug.
• Alessandro Lizzeri & Yichuan Lou & Jacopo Perego, 2026, "The Limits of Verifiability: Credibility and Flexibility in Communication," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35712, Sep.
• David Dillenberger & Jay Lu, 2026, "Pure Risk," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.29506, Aug.
• Jeremy Bertomeu & Edwige Cheynel & Peicong Hu, 2026, "Disclosure under Noisy Information Processing," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.07898, Sep.
• Granados Samayoa, Javier & Hyde, Timothy, 2026, "HKC07 - Bayesian conspiracy theorists? Equivocal signals and persistent polarization," Oberlin College Kasper Economics and Business Working Papers Series, Oberlin College, Department of Economics, number 2604, Aug.
• Peiran Xiao & Hashim Zaman, 2026, "Tournaments with Managerial Discretion," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.04068, Sep.
• Paul H. Y. Cheung & Zichang Wang, 2026, "Scrutiny and Conservatism," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.28866, Aug.
• Philipp Peitler & Karl H. Schlag, 2026, "Putting Context into Preference Aggregation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.19888, Sep.
• Pham, Ngoc Anh, 2026, "Grantsmanship and the design of funding contests," QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School, number 2026/07.
• Endre Cs'oka, 2026, "A 1.283 Price-of-Anarchy Bound for the Repeated Virtual First-Price Auction," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.05499, Aug.
• Sylvain Béal & Emmanuelle Lebeuf & Kevin Techer, 2026, "Allocation rules for network games with local considerations," Working Papers, CRESE, number 2026-08, Sep.
• Hadi Hosseini & Shraddha Pathak & Lirong Xia & Chengkai Zhang, 2026, "Simultaneous Envy and Equitability Guarantees," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.26410, Aug, revised Sep 2026.
• Kemal Ozbek, 2026, "Utility-Level-Dependent Ambiguity," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.11748, Sep.
• Imenkamp, Nico & Wey, Christian, 2026, "When wholesale prices fall short: The RPM problem revisited," DICE Discussion Papers, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), number 439.
• Alexis Akira Toda, 2026, "Conditional Impatience and Concavity of Consumption Functions," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.29488, Aug, revised Sep 2026.
• Gerrit Meyerheim, 2026, "Post-Defense Returns: Dynamic Strategic States and the Value of Low-Return Actions," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12962.
• Buchholz, Wolfgang & Hattori, Keisuke, 2026, "Strategic Self-Handicapping to Induce Rival Mergers," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 343613.
• Endre Cs'oka, 2026, "From the Social Choice Problem to a Collusion-Proof Tendering Mechanism for Dynamic Stochastic Projects," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.28722, Aug.
• Jérôme Pouyet & David Martimort, 2026, "The Incentive Virtues of Performance-Based Trade Allowances and Loss Leading," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05740397, Jun.
• Alistair Barton, 2026, "Ripple Effects: Robust Norms without Punishment," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.06151, Sep.
• Doruk Cetemen & Yonggyun Kim & Fei Li & Curtis R. Taylor, 2026, "Midterm Review," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.07871, Sep.
• Peter Caradonna & Zachary Raines, 2026, "Interpersonally Comparable Utility," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.25043, Aug.
• Kazumi Shimizu, 2026, "Local Representativeness and Distorted Bayesian Updating: A Finite-Urn Analysis," Working Papers, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, number 2611, Sep.
• Bruno Pellegrino, 2026, "Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices with Stable Priors," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35702, Sep.
• Chai, Ziyi & Dietzenbacher, Bas, 2026, "Two-bound core games with communication restrictions," Research Memorandum, Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), number 008, Sep, DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2026008.
• Antonio Cabrales & Gregorio Curello & Olivier Gossner & Roberto Serrano, 2026, "Comparative Statics of Information Acquisition and Risk Aversion," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12982.
• Sven A. Simon & Sven Arne Simon, 2026, "Is It a Lie If I Don’t Know? Mechanisms and Mitigation of Dishonesty Under Ignorance," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12985.