Marra Lab

University of Leuven

Vlaams Gewest (BE2) · Belgium

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2025

New markets: Structural analysis and Mechanism design, with applications to airport capacity problems

Our economy relies on auctions to efficiently allocate scarce resources, and we use auction models to understand competition in bidding markets. However, traditional auction analysis is limited to existing mechanisms as it relies on bid data to estimate firms' latent values. Instead, APCAP proposes to study the welfare effects of implementing auctions in new markets. Auction values are characterized based on the profits generated from auctioned items and can be estimated using appropriate demand and supply models, bridging two disconnected strands of research in Industrial Organization. This idea is used to study various angles of the pressing airport capacity problem and how to best…

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