Matthew W. Thomas

Economics Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University

Notes about how to optimize over a space of functions instead of numbers

Thoughts on efficient revenue maximizing symmetric contests

Summary of existing results on the design of asymmetric Tullock contests

Simple derivation of equilibria in a general two player war of attrition

I made a blogroll of Econ blogs that anyone can contribute to

Notes on VCG and issues with current applications of quadratic voting

A research example of induction on the real numbers

If you sync your Documents folder with OneDrive, R can have issues

Someone made a TeX version of my Econ Ipsum website

Tricks to stop email scraping without affecting human users