Simplicity and Market Design

Project Information

Simplicity

Grant agreement ID: 866376

DOI

10.3030/866376

EC signature date 14 June 2022

Start date 1 July 2022

End date 30 June 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 727 380,00

EU contribution

€ 1 727 380,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Outside options in neutral allocation of discrete resources

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Utku Unver
Published in: Review of Economic Design, Issue 26, 2022, Page(s) 581-604, ISSN 1434-4750
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10058-022-00321-7

Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts

Author(s): Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Yeji Sung, Michael Woodford
Published in: American Economic Review, Issue 114, 2024, Page(s) 3075-3118, ISSN 0002-8282
Publisher: American Economic Association
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20201806

A Case for Pay-as-Bid Auctions

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Kyle Woodward
Published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025, ISSN 0022-3808
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/738341

Random compressed coding with neurons

Author(s): Simone Blanco Malerba, Mirko Pieropan, Yoram Burak, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Published in: Cell Reports, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 115412, ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115412

Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities

Author(s): Nischal Mainali, Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Yoram Burak
Published in: Neuron, 2025, ISSN 0896-6273
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.017

Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity

Author(s): Trang-Anh E. Nghiem, Jenny L. Witten, Oscar Dufour, Wolf M. Harmening, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2416266122

A Theory of Simplicity in Games and Mechanism Design

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Peter Troyan
Published in: Econometrica, Issue 91(4), 2023, Page(s) 1495-1526, ISSN 1468-0262
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Econometric Society
DOI: 10.3982/ecta16310

Other (11)

Obviously Strategyproof Mechanisms in General Environments

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Peter Troyan
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP18957, 2024, Page(s) 1-26
Publisher: CEPR

Efficient Bilateral Trade

Author(s): Rod Garratt, Marek Pycia
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP18188, 2023, Page(s) 1-61, ISSN 0265-8003
Publisher: CEPR

Optimality of Two-tier Quotas in Selection

Author(s): Byeong-hyeon Jeong, Junrok Park
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2025, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5160600

The First-Price Principle of Maximizing Economic Objectives

Author(s): Byeong-hyeon Jeong, Marek Pycia
Published in: SSRN, Issue WPS 5160573, 2025, Page(s) 1-47
Publisher: Elsevier

Pollution Permits: Efficiency by Design

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Kyle Woodward
Published in: SSRN, Issue WPS 4453956, 2023, Page(s) 1-28
Publisher: Elsevier

A Case for Pay-as-Bid Auctions

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Kyle Woodward
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP15656, 2023, Page(s) 1-100
Publisher: CEPR

The Random Priority Mechanism is Uniquely Simple, Efficient, and Fair

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Peter Troyan
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP19689, 2024, Page(s) 1-68
Publisher: CEPR

Double Auctions and Transaction Costs

Author(s): Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H.Nax, Bary Pradelski, Marek Pycia
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP17039, 2024, Page(s) 1-88
Publisher: CEPR

Ordinal Simplicity in Discrete Mechanism Design

Author(s): Marek Pycia, M. Utku Ünver
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP19820, 2024, Page(s) 1-34
Publisher: CEPR

Information Choice in Trade: Cost over Content

Author(s): Kristof Madarasz, Marek Pycia
Published in: SSRN, Issue WPS 5078271, 2024, Page(s) 1-60
Publisher: Elsevier

Foundations of Double Auctions from Theory and Practice

Author(s): Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H. Nax, Bary S.R. Pradelski, Marek Pycia
Published in: CEPR Discussion Papers, Issue DP19690, 2024, Page(s) 1-60
Publisher: CEPR

Conference proceedings (2)

Pollution Permits: Efficiency by Design

Author(s): Marek Pycia, Kyle Woodward
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '23), Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1075, ISBN 979-8-4007-0104-7
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3580507.3597784

Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade (Extended Abstract)

Author(s): Kristóf Madarász, Marek Pycia
Published in: 6th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2025), 2025, Page(s) 13:1-13:1
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
DOI: 10.4230/lipics.forc.2025.13