Matthew W. Thomas

Markets tend not to accommodate disabled workers and consumers without outside intervention.

This is a short guide to document my experience in enabling TeX support in Mastodon by injecting KaTeX into the interface.

This is a short guide to document my experience in enabling TeX support in Mastodon by installing Christian Lawson-Perfect’s Mathstodon fork.

There are many settings in Economics, particularly in mechanism design, where one wants to fund a function that maximizes (or minimizes) some objective.

I show that any efficient two player symmetric allocation rule between risk neutral, heterogenous players generates weakly less revenue than one of two contests.

This is a quick post about how to fix an annoying R bug on Windows 10 caused by OneDrive.

These notes summarize concepts introduced in Nti (1999), Fang (2002), Nti (2004), Epstein et al (2013), and Ewerhart (2017a) about revenue maximization in Tullock lottery contests.

These notes are about nonlinear war of attrition models with two players.

About two years ago, Maria Betto and I made Econ Ipsum, a Lorem Ipsum generator that uses words from Econometrica abstracts to produce Economic sounding nonsense.

This is a list I compiled of other blogs about Economics.

I recently came across a paper published in Management Science that proposes Quadratic Finance (QF), a a quadratic voting mechanism to allocate funds to public goods such as open source software.

If put your email in plaintext on your website, you will get spam from people trying to sell you SEO, development services, ghostwriting, etc.

Conventional proof by induction allows you to prove that a statement applies to an infinite sequence.

Basic usage Single terminal To launch screen, just run screen Then run all of your commands like stata -b do filename.