Topic · Auction Theory and Applications
Most cited papers in Auction Theory and Applications
What are the most cited papers in Auction Theory and Applications?
The most cited paper in Auction Theory and Applications is "A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting" (Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire, 1997), with 20,713 citations. Next come "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" (9,650) and "Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review" (9,404).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,025 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire · Journal of Computer and System Sciences | Aug 1997 | 20,713 |
| 2 | The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration Sanford J. Grossman, Oliver Hart · Journal of Political Economy | Aug 1986 | 9,650 |
| 3 | Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 9,404 |
| 4 | Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events W. Brian Arthur · The Economic Journal | Mar 1989 | 7,491 |
| 5 | Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design Bengt R. Holmstrom, Paul Milgrom · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization | 1991 | 6,236 |
| 6 | Optimal Auction Design Roger B. Myerson · Mathematics of Operations Research | Feb 1981 | 6,188 |
| 7 | Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History Joyce E. Berg, John W. Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe · Games and Economic Behavior | Jul 1995 | 5,694 |
| 8 | A Course in Game Theory Martin John Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein | 1994 | 5,403 |
| 9 | A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence Gary S. Becker · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1983 | 4,210 |
| 10 | Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action Erich Weede · European Journal of Political Economy | May 1992 | 3,926 |
| 11 | A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding Paul Milgrom, Robert James Weber · Econometrica | Sep 1982 | 3,863 |
| 12 | The Provision of Incentives in Firms Canice J. Prendergast · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 1999 | 3,459 |
| 13 | Two-sided markets: a progress report Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole · The RAND Journal of Economics | Sep 2006 | 3,075 |
| 14 | The Use of Pledges to Build and Sustain Commitment in Distribution Channels Erin Anderson, Barton A. Weitz · Journal of Marketing Research | Feb 1992 | 3,032 |
| 15 | Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies Thomas W. Malone, JoAnne Yates, Robert I. Benjamin · Communications of the ACM | Jun 1987 | 3,015 |
| 16 | Information Technology Implementation Research: A Technological Diffusion Approach Randolph B. Cooper, Robert W. Zmud · Management Science | Feb 1990 | 2,767 |
| 17 | Supply Chain Coordination with Contracts Gérard P. Cachon · Handbooks in operations research and management science | 2003 | 2,729 |
| 18 | A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks Matthew O. Jackson, Asher Wolinsky · Journal of Economic Theory | Oct 1996 | 2,691 |
| 19 | Efficient mechanisms for bilateral trading Roger B. Myerson, Mark A. Satterthwaite · Journal of Economic Theory | Apr 1983 | 2,584 |
| 20 | Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized versus Hierarchical Firms Jeremy C. Stein · The Journal of Finance | Oct 2002 | 2,554 |
| 21 | Toward a synthesis of the resource‐based and dynamic‐capability views of rent creation Richard Makadok · Strategic Management Journal | 4 Apr 2001 | 2,529 |
| 22 | Supply Chain Coordination with Revenue-Sharing Contracts: Strengths and Limitations Gérard P. Cachon, Martin A. Lariviere · Management Science | 2005 | 2,523 |
| 23 | Subject pool recruitment procedures: organizing experiments with ORSEE Ben Greiner · Journal of the Economic Science Association | 6 May 2015 | 2,396 |
| 24 | Online Computation and Competitive Analysis Allan Borodin, Ran El‐Yaniv | 1998 | 2,372 |
| 25 | Premiums for High Quality Products as Returns to Reputations Carl Shapiro · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1983 | 2,361 |
| 26 | Agents that reduce work and information overload Pattie Maes · Communications of the ACM | Jul 1994 | 2,332 |
| 27 | Reducing Buyer Search Costs: Implications for Electronic Marketplaces J. Yannis Bakos · Management Science | Dec 1997 | 2,294 |
| 28 | The Nonstochastic Multiarmed Bandit Problem Peter L. Auer, Nicolò Cesa‐Bianchi, Yoav Freund et al. · SIAM Journal on Computing | 2002 | 2,272 |
| 29 | Closed-Loop Supply Chain Models with Product Remanufacturing R. Canan Savaskan, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Luk N. Van Wassenhove · Management Science | Feb 2004 | 2,249 |
| 30 | A desicion-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an application to boosting Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire · Lecture notes in computer science | 1995 | 2,245 |
| 31 | The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Level Supply Chain Hau L. Lee, Kut C. So, Christopher Siew Wai Tang · Management Science | May 2000 | 2,144 |
| 32 | Paradox Lost? Firm-Level Evidence on the Returns to Information Systems Spending Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt · Management Science | Apr 1996 | 2,143 |
| 33 | Disclosure of Nonproprietary Information Ronald A. Dye · Journal of Accounting Research | 1985 | 2,052 |
| 34 | Bayesian Persuasion Emir Kamenica, Matthew Aaron Gentzkow · American Economic Review | Oct 2011 | 2,000 |
| 35 | An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem Sanford J. Grossman, Oliver Hart · Hübner international series on risk, insurance, and economic security | 1992 | 1,974 |
| 36 | Does function follow organizational form? Evidence from the lending practices of large and small banks Allen N. Berger, Nathan W. Miller, Mitchell A. Petersen et al. · Journal of Financial Economics | 8 Feb 2005 | 1,963 |
| 37 | Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation Oliver Hart, John Hardman Moore · Econometrica | Jul 1988 | 1,942 |
| 38 | Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming Laurence A. Baxter, Martin L. Puterman · Technometrics | Aug 1995 | 1,898 |
| 39 | Chicken & Egg: Competition among Intermediation Service Providers Bernard Caillaud, Bruno Jullien · The RAND Journal of Economics | 2003 | 1,871 |
| 40 | Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information Gérard P. Cachon, Marshall L. Fisher · Management Science | Aug 2000 | 1,866 |
| 41 | Other Solutions to Nash's Bargaining Problem Ehud Kalai, Meir Smorodinsky · Econometrica | May 1975 | 1,831 |
| 42 | The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons Oliver Hart, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1997 | 1,814 |
| 43 | Information, trade and common knowledge Paul Milgrom, Nancy L. Stokey · Journal of Economic Theory | Feb 1982 | 1,803 |
| 44 | Effective interim collaboration: how firms minimize transaction costs and maximise transaction value Jeffrey H. Dyer · Strategic Management Journal | Aug 1997 | 1,796 |
| 45 | The dynamics of learning alliances: competition, cooperation, and relative scope Tarun Khanna, Ranjay Gulati, Nitin Nohria · Strategic Management Journal | Mar 1998 | 1,752 |
| 46 | Ferreting out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups M. Bertrand, P.K. Mehta, Sendhil Mullainathan · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2002 | 1,738 |
| 47 | Agency costs and innovation Bengt R. Holmstrom · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Dec 1989 | 1,683 |
| 48 | School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Tayfun Sönmez · American Economic Review | May 2003 | 1,655 |
| 49 | Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords Benjamin Edelman, Michael Ostrovsky, Michael H. Schwarz · American Economic Review | Feb 2007 | 1,641 |
| 50 | On agent-based software engineering Nicholas R. Jennings · Artificial Intelligence | Mar 2000 | 1,637 |
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