Matthew W. Thomas
Incoming Economist at Federal Trade Commission
Econ
Optimal Fair Contests
Thoughts on efficient revenue maximizing symmetric contests
Tullock Lottery Contests with Direct and Covert Discrimination
Summary of existing results on the design of asymmetric Tullock contests
PDFNonlinear War of Attrition with Complete Information
Simple derivation of equilibria in a general two player war of attrition
PDFList of Econ Blogs
I made a blogroll of Econ blogs that anyone can contribute to
Mechanisms to Fund Open Source
Notes on VCG and issues with current applications of quadratic voting
Math
Optimization of Functionals and the Calculus of Variations
Notes about how to optimize over a space of functions instead of numbers
Optimal Fair Contests
Thoughts on efficient revenue maximizing symmetric contests
Tullock Lottery Contests with Direct and Covert Discrimination
Summary of existing results on the design of asymmetric Tullock contests
PDFNonlinear War of Attrition with Complete Information
Simple derivation of equilibria in a general two player war of attrition
PDFMechanisms to Fund Open Source
Notes on VCG and issues with current applications of quadratic voting
Real Induction
A research example of induction on the real numbers
Technology
Fix the R Library Bug on Windows 10
If you sync your Documents folder with OneDrive, R can have issues
PDFEcon Ipsum Now Available in TeX
Someone made a TeX version of my Econ Ipsum website
How to Prevent Email Scraping
Tricks to stop email scraping without affecting human users
How to use GNU Screen
Use GNU Screen to run long processes on a remote server