Preston McAfee

Preston McAfee

Distinguished Scientist

Google (prev. Microsoft, Yahoo)

PhD: Purdue, 1980

Auction Theory Mechanism Design Antitrust

About

Preston McAfee is an auction design legend. He designed the FCC spectrum auctions with Milgrom and Wilson. As Chief Economist at Microsoft and VP at Yahoo, he built world-class economics teams. He founded ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation.

Key Work

1992

A Dominant Strategy Double Auction

J. Economic Theory

Foundational auction theory

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2011

Incentive Compatibility and Internet Advertising

Working Paper

Theory of online ad markets

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2006

Introduction to Economic Analysis

Open Textbook

Free, open-source economics textbook

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