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  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

John O. Ledyard is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans several interconnected fields including Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. They have contributed to specialized subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, and Finance.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum with a focus on Auction Theory and Applications, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Economic Theories and Models, and Stochastic Processes and Financial Applications.

Recent publications by John O. Ledyard include the following papers:

  • "IEL-CDA model: A more accurate theory of behavior in continuous double auctions" (2024), published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • "Issue Information" (2023), published in the Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • "A More Accurate Theory of Behavior in Continuous Double Auctions" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Issue Information" (2024), published in the Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • "A Continuous Combinatorial Financial Exchange: Design, Simulations, and Live Testing" (2025), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Jasmina Arifovic
  • Anil Donmez
  • Mikhail Anufriev
  • Valentyn Panchenko
  • Rabah Amir

John O. Ledyard's works have appeared regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Over the course of their career, John O. Ledyard has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research

    John O. Ledyard

  • Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research

    John O. Ledyard

  • Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the "Free Rider" Problem

    Theodore Groves;John Ledyard

  • The pure theory of large two-candidate elections

    John O. Ledyard

  • The Promise of Prediction Markets

    Kenneth J. Arrow;Robert Forsythe;Michael Gorham;Robert Hahn

  • Allocating uncertain and unresponsive resources: an experimental approach.

    Jeffrey S. Banks;John O. Ledyard;David P. Porter

  • A New and Improved Design for Multiobject Iterative Auctions

    Anthony M. Kwasnica;John O. Ledyard;Dave Porter;Christine DeMartini

  • The First Use of a Combined-Value Auction for Transportation Services

    John O. Ledyard;Mark Olson;David Porter;Joseph A. Swanson

  • Nonvoting and the existence of equilibrium under majority rule

    Melvin J Hinich;John O Ledyard;Peter C Ordeshook

  • Mutually Destructive Bidding: The FCC Auction Design Problem

    Mark M. Bykowsky;Robert J. Cull;John O. Ledyard

  • Theories of price formation and exchange in double oral auctions

    David Easley;John O. Ledyard

  • Experiments Testing Multiobject Allocation Mechanisms

    John O. Ledyard;David Porter;Antonio Rangel

  • The paradox of voting and candidate competition: A general equilibrium analysis

    John O. Ledyard

  • Designing organizations for trading pollution rights

    John O Ledyard;Kristin Szakaly-Moore

  • A Theory of Electoral Equilibrium: A Spatial Analysis Based on the Theory of Games

    Melvin J. Hinich;John O. Ledyard;Peter C. Ordeshook

  • Some limitations of demand revelaing processes

    Theodore Groves;John O. Ledyard

  • A New and Improved Design For Multi-Object Iterative Auctions

    Christine DeMartini;Anthony M. Kwasnica;John O. Ledyard;David Porter

  • The scope of the hypothesis of Bayesian equilibrium

    John O Ledyard

  • Incentive compatibility and incomplete information

    John O Ledyard

  • An Experimental Test of Flexible Combinatorial Spectrum Auction Formats

    Christoph Brunner;Jacob K. Goeree;Charles A. Holt;John O. Ledyard

  • Individual Evolutionary Learning, Other-regarding Preferences, and the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism

    Jasmina Arifovic;John Ledyard

  • Individual evolutionary learning, other-regarding preferences, and the voluntary contributions mechanism

    Jasmina Arifovic;John Ledyard

Frequent Co-Authors

David Porter
David Porter Chapman University
Thomas R. Palfrey
Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology
Peter Bossaerts
Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge
Charles R. Plott
Charles R. Plott California Institute of Technology
Vernon L. Smith
Vernon L. Smith Chapman University
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller Yale University
Charles N. Noussair
Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona
Antonio Rangel
Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology
Peter C. Ordeshook
Peter C. Ordeshook California Institute of Technology
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania

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