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The Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design is published by the Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design based at York, UK.
Its official identity is ISSN: 2399-844X (Print), 2399-8458 (Online), and DOI: 10.22574/jmid.
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The Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design aims to publish original articles that deal with the issues of designing, improving, analysing and testing economic, financial, political, or social mechanisms and institutions. It welcomes theoretical, empirical, experimental, historical and practical studies. It seeks creative, interesting, rigorous, and logical research and strives for clarity of thought and expression. We particularly encourage less experienced researchers such as recent PhD graduates to submit their work to the Journal and are sympathetic towards those papers that are novel and innovative but which have been unsuccessful elsewhere. We hope that the published articles will be interesting and valuable to a broad audience from the areas of economics, finance, politics, law, computer science, management, history, mathematics, government, and related disciplines. The journal is an open-access, independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit, English-language journal with the purpose of disseminating and sharing the latest knowledge and understanding of the subject widely. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal.

In order for any work that is published by the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design to be freely accessible to the widest audience possible, when a paper is accepted by this Journal for publication, its author(s) will be asked to release the paper under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license. While the authors retain the copyright of their published work, this license permits anyone to copy and distribute the paper for non-commercial purposes, provided that both the author(s) of the article and the Journal are properly acknowledged. For details of the copyrights, please see the "human-readable summary" of the license.

For further information, please contact Tommy Andersson, Vincent Crawford, David Martimort, Paul Schweinzer, or Zaifu Yang.

Accepted papers

Volume 9, issue 1 (December 2024)

Special Issue in Honour of Vincent P. Crawford (In production)

  1. A festschrift for Vince Crawford

    Alexander Teytelboym, pages 1-5

  2. Kenneth Arrow's Last Theorem

    Paul Milgrom, pages 7-11

  3. Bayesian Bullshit

    Sajan Srivastava, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Rakesh Vohra, pages 11-51

  4. The Existence of Equilibrium Flows

    Alfred Galichon, Larry Samuelson, Lucas Vernet, pages 53-79

  5. Respect for Improvements and Comparative Statics in Matching Markets

    Scott Duke Kominers, pages 81-102

  6. An Efficient and General Ascending Menu Auction under Budget Constraints

    Zaifu Yang, Jingsheng Yu, pages 103-128

 jMID, Volume 9

Volume 8, issue 1 (December 2023)

2023 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Stable and envy-free lottery allocations for affordable housing

    Zhan Wang, Jinpeng Ma, and Hongwei Zhang, pages 1-55

  2. Golden rule in cooperative commons

    Sjur Flåm, pages 57-74

  3. A market design solution to a multi-category housing allocation problem

    Gian Caspari, pages 75-96

  4. Optimal mechanism design with approximate incentive compatibility and many players

    Pathikrit Basu, pages 97-106

  5. Reducing incentive constraints in bidimensional screening

    Braulio Calagua, pages 107-150

 jMID, Volume 8

Volume 7, issue 1 (December 2022)

2022 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Object-based unawareness: Theory and applications

    Oliver Board and Kim-Sau Chung, pages 1-43

  2. Centralized clearing mechanisms in financial networks: A programming approach

    Péter Csóka and P. Jean-Jacques Herings, pages 45-69

  3. Centralized refugee matching mechanisms with hierarchical priority classes

    Dilek Sayedahmed, pages 71-111

  4. Characterization of incentive compatible single-parameter mechanisms revisited

    Krzysztof R. Apt and Jan Heering, pages 113-129

  5. A regulatory arbitrage game: Off-balance-sheet leverage and financial fragility

    Dimitris Voliotis, pages 131-150

 jMID, Volume 7

Volume 6, issue 1 (December 2021)

2021 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Object-based unawareness: Axioms

    Oliver Board and Kim-Sau Chung, pages 1-36

  2. Axioms concerning uncertain disagreement points in 2-person bargaining problems

    Youngsub Chun, pages 37-58

  3. A deferred acceptance mechanism for decentralized, fast, and fair childcare assignment

    Tobias Reischmann, Thilo Klein, and Sven Giegerich, pages 59-100

  4. On the degree of distortions under second-degree price discrimination

    Ram Orzach and Miron Stano, pages 101-112

  5. Dream teams and the Apollo effect

    Alex Gershkov and Paul Schweinzer, pages 113-148

 jMID, Volume 6

Volume 5, issue 1 (December 2020)

2020 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Implementation with ex post hidden actions

    Caleb Koch, pages 1-35

  2. On optimal taxes and subsidies: A discrete saddle-point theorem with application to job matching under constraints

    Koji Yokote, pages 37-77

  3. On a class of linear-state differential games with subgame individually rational and time consistent bargaining solutions

    Simon Hoof, pages 79-97

  4. Matching with compatibility constraints: The case of the Canadian medical residency match

    Muhammad Maaz and Anastasios Papanastasiou, pages 99-117

  5. Rights and rents in local commons

    Sjur Flåm, pages 119-140

 jMID, Volume 5

Volume 4, issue 1 (November 2019)

2019 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Efficient and dominance solvable auctions with interdependent valuations

    Kim-Sau Chung, Jeffrey C. Ely, pages 1-38

  2. A new evaluation criterion for allocation mechanisms with application to vehicle license allocations in China

    Jianxin Rong, Ning Sun, Dazhong Wang, pages 39-86

  3. Pareto optimal coalitions of fixed size

    Ágnes Cseh, Tamás Fleiner, Petra Harján, pages 87-108

  4. A comparison of NTU values in a cooperative game with incomplete information

    Andrés Salamanca, pages 109-117

  5. Loss aversion in financial markets

    Liyan Yang, pages 119-137

 jMID, Volume 4

Volume 3, issue 1 (December 2018)

2018 jMID Citation analysis
  1. The uncovered set and the core: Cox’s result revisited

    Anindya Bhattacharya, Victoria Brosi, Francesco Ciardiello, pages 1-15

  2. Strategy-proofness of stochastic assignment mechanisms

    André Schmelzer, pages 17-50

  3. Efficient random assignment with cardinal and ordinal preferences

    James Fisher, pages 51-96

  4. Mechanisms for house allocation with existing tenants under dichotomous preferences

    Haris Aziz, pages 97-110

  5. A reexamination of the Coase theorem

    Jingang Zhao, pages 111-132

 jMID, Volume 3

Volume 2, issue 1 (December 2017)

2017 jMID Citation analysis
  1. On a spontaneous decentralized market process

    Satoru Fujishige, Zaifu Yang, pages 1-37

  2. Timing and presentation effects in sequential auctions

    Ola Andersson, Tommy Andersson, pages 39-55

  3. Efficiency and fair access in Kindergarten allocation policy design

    André Veski, Péter Biró, Kaire Põder, Triin Lauri, pages 57-104

  4. On the partnership formation problem

    Akiyoshi Shioura, pages 105-140

  5. Heterogeneity in preferences and behavior in threshold models

    Philip R. Neary, Jonathan Newton, pages 141-159

 jMID, Volume 2

Volume 1, issue 1 (December 2016)

2016 jMID Citation analysis
  1. Convergence of price processes under two dynamic double auctions

    Jinpeng Ma, Qiongling Li, pages 1-44

  2. School choice under complete information: An experimental study

    Yan Chen, Yingzhi Liang, Tayfun Sönmez, pages 45-82

  3. On non-cooperative foundation and implementation of the Nash
    solution in subgame perfect equilibrium via Rubinstein's game

    Papatya Duman, Walter Trockel, pages 83-107

  4. An ascending multi-item auction with financially constrained bidders

    Gerard van der Laan, Zaifu Yang, pages 109-149

  5. Discrete convex analysis: A tool for economics and game theory

    Kazuo Murota, pages 151-273

 jMID, Volume 1


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