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59
Citations
18160
World Ranking
865
National Ranking
543

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

R. Preston McAfee is affiliated with Google in the United States. Their research contributions span several areas within economics and technology, focusing particularly on innovation diffusion, forecasting, and economic growth alongside the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) policies.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Characterizing the Usage Intensity of Public Cloud, 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
  • Relying on the Metrics of Evaluated Agents, 2024, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties, 2025, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Their work has appeared mainly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation

Frequent co-authors contributing to these works include:

  • Katrina Ligett
  • Aadharsh Kannan
  • Jacob LaRiviere
  • Serena Wang
  • Michael I. Jordan

Scholarly interests cover key subfields of study that include:

  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Media Technology
  • Economics and Econometrics

Main research topics reflected in their work include:

  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Economic Growth and Productivity

R. Preston McAfee was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Auctions and Bidding

    R Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Multiproduct Monopoly, Commodity Bundling, and Correlation of Values

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan;Michael D. Whinston

  • A dominant strategy double auction

    R.Preston McAfee

  • Bidding for contracts: a principal-agent analysis

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Auctionin Entry into Tournaments

    Richard L. Fullerton;R. Preston McAfee

  • Analyzing the Airwaves Auction

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • MECHANISM DESIGN BY COMPETING SELLERS

    R. Preston McAfee

  • Correlated Information and Mechanism Design

    R. Preston McAfee;Philip J. Reny

  • Discrete Equilibrium Price Dispersion

    John A. Carlson;R. Preston McAfee

  • The Declining Price Anomaly

    R.Preston McAfee;Daniel Vincent

  • Auctions with entry

    R.Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Auctions with a stochastic number of bidders

    R.Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Competition for Agency Contracts

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Multidimensional incentive compatibility and mechanism design

    R.Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Government procurement and international trade

    R.Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • OPTIMAL CONTRACTS FOR TEAMS

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Organizational Diseconomies of scale

    R. Preston McAfee;John McMillan

  • Horizontal Mergers and Antitrust Policy

    R. Preston McAfee;Michael A. Williams

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

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

  • Signaling Character in Electoral Competition

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  • Sequentially Optimal Auctions

    R.Preston McAfee;Daniel Vincent

Frequent Co-Authors

John McMillan
John McMillan Stanford University
Daniel G. Goldstein
Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)
Siddharth Suri
Siddharth Suri Microsoft (United States)
Sergei Vassilvitskii
Sergei Vassilvitskii Google (United States)
Philip J. Reny
Philip J. Reny University of Chicago
Andrew B. Whinston
Andrew B. Whinston The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt Brown University
Mohammad Mahdian
Mohammad Mahdian Google (United States)
Peter Cramton
Peter Cramton University of Maryland, College Park

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