# Economics

## Auctions and Bidding

* [Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists (2011)](http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~parsons/projects/mech-design/publications/bluffers-final.pdf) by S. Parsons, J. Rodriguez-Aguilar, M. Klein

* [Optimal Bidding in Online Auctions (2001)](http://www.mit.edu/~dbertsim/papers/Revenue%20Management/Optimal%20Bidding%20in%20Online%20Auctions.pdf) by Dimitris Bertsimas, Jerey Hawkinsy, Georgia Perakis

* [Online Ad Auctions (2009)](online-ad-auctions.pdf) by Hal Varian

## Open Source

* [The Simple Economics of Open Source  (2000)](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=224008) by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

## Contract enforcement/principal-agent models

* [Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition (1993)](https://web.stanford.edu/~avner/Greif_Papers/1993%20Greif%20AER%201993.pdf) by Avner Grief

## Game theory

* [Two-person cooperative games (1950)](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2005/P172.pdf) by John Forbes Nash