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778
National Ranking
486

Overview

Peter Cramton is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Safety Research, and Media Technology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • ICT Impact and Policies

Peter Cramton's recent publications demonstrate an active engagement with interdisciplinary topics and policy-relevant research. The list of recent papers includes:

  • "Market Design, Human Behavior, and Management" (2020) published in Management Science
  • "Borrow crisis tactics to get COVID-19 supplies to where they are needed" (2020) published in Nature
  • "Improving the cost-effectiveness of the Conservation Reserve Program: A laboratory study" (2021) published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • "An open-access market for global communications" (2024) published in Telecommunications Policy
  • "Resilient Electricity Requires Consumer Engagement" (2024) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include Axel Ockenfels, David Malec, Simon Brandkamp, Albert S. Kyle, and Erik Bohlin. Collaboration with these researchers has occurred across multiple published works, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their areas of study.

Peter Cramton's research has been published in a range of venues, with multiple contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, as well as articles appearing in Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft, Management Science, Nature, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Best Publications

  • Combinatorial Auctions

    Peter Cramton;Yoav Shoham;Richard Steinberg

  • Demand Reduction and Inefficiency in Multi-Unit Auctions

    Lawrence M. Ausubel;Peter Cramton

  • The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response

    Eric Budish;Peter Cramton;John Shim

  • Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How and Why to Auction, Not Grandfather

    Peter Cramton;Suzi Kerr

  • Demand Reduction and Inefficiency in Multi-Unit Auctions

    Lawrence M. Ausubel;Peter Cramton;Marek Pycia;Marzena Rostek

  • Dissolving a Partnership Efficiently.

    Peter C. Cramton;Robert Gibbons;Paul Klemperer

  • Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining

    Alvin E. Roth

  • The FCC Spectrum Auctions: An Early Assessment

    Peter Cramton

  • The FCC Spectrum Auctions: An Early Assessment

    Peter C. Cramton

  • Capacity Market Fundamentals

    Peter Cramton;Axel Ockenfels;Steven Stoft

  • Strategic Delay in Bargaining with Two-Sided Uncertainty

    Peter Cramton

  • A Capacity Market that Makes Sense

    Peter Cramton;Steven Stoft

  • Bargaining with Incomplete Information: An Infinite-Horizon Model with Two-Sided Uncertainty

    Peter Cramton

  • Electricity market design

    Peter Cramton

  • The Clock-Proxy Auction: A Practical Combinatorial Auction Design *

    Lawrence M. Ausubel;Peter Cramton;Paul R. Milgrom

  • A Capacity Market that Makes Sense

    Peter Cramton;Steven Stoft

  • Collusive Bidding: Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Auctions

    Peter Cramton;Jesse A. Schwartz

  • Bargaining with Incomplete Information

    Lawrence M. Ausubel;Peter Cramton;Raymond J. Deneckere

  • Money Out of Thin Air: The Nationwide Narrowband PCS Auction

    Peter Cramton

  • Money Out of Thin Air: The nationwide Narrowband pcs Auction

    Peter C. Cramton

  • Spectrum Auction Design

    Peter Cramton

  • The convergence of market designs for adequate generating capacity with special attention to the CAISO's resource adequacy problem

    Peter C. Cramton;Steven Stoft

  • Economics and Design of Capacity Markets for the Power Sector

    Peter Cramton;Axel Ockenfels

  • Synergies in Wireless Telephony: Evidence from the Broadband PCS Auctions

    Lawrence M. Ausubel;Peter Cramton;R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Dissolving a Partnership Efficiently

    Peter Cramton;Robert Gibbons;Paul Klemperer

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence M. Ausubel
Lawrence M. Ausubel University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson Stanford University
Joseph S. Tracy
Joseph S. Tracy American Enterprise Institute
Paul Milgrom
Paul Milgrom Stanford University
Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne
Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres Yale University
Robert W. Hahn
Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford
John McMillan
John McMillan Stanford University
Morley Gunderson
Morley Gunderson University of Toronto
Yoav Shoham
Yoav Shoham Stanford University

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