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Electricity market operators worldwide use mixed-integer linear programming to solve the allocation problem in wholesale electricity markets. Prices are typically determined based on the duals of relaxed versions of this optimization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Mete Şeref Ahunbay , Martin Bichler , Teodora Dobos , Johannes Knörr

We develop a simple yet efficient Lagrangian method for computing equilibrium prices in a mean-field game price-formation model. We prove that equilibrium prices are optimal in terms of a suitable criterion and derive a primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Xu Wang , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

A standing assumption in the literature on proportional transaction costs is efficient friction. Together with robust no free lunch with vanishing risk, it rules out strategies of infinite variation, as they usually appear in frictionless…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-21 Christoph Kühn , Alexander Molitor

We consider a game where a finite number of retailers choose a location, given that their potential consumers are distributed on a network. Retailers do not compete on price but only on location, therefore each consumer shops at the closest…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Gaëtan Fournier , Marco Scarsini

We study a recommendation system where sellers compete for visibility by strategically offering commissions to a platform that optimally curates a ranked menu of items and their respective prices for each customer. Customers interact…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Tushar Shankar Walunj , Veeraruna Kavitha , Jayakrishnan Nair , Priyank Agarwal

The canonical price-adjustment process, t\^atonnement, typically fails to converge to the exact competitive equilibrium (CE) and requires a high iteration complexity of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(1/\epsilon)$ to compute $\epsilon$-CE prices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 He Chen , Chonghe Jiang , Anthony Man-Cho So

In the present work we develop a formalism to tackle the problem of optimal execution when trading market securities. More precisely, we introduce a utility function that balances market impact and timing risk, with this last being modelled…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-17 David Marcos

Randomized mechanisms, which map a set of bids to a probability distribution over outcomes rather than a single outcome, are an important but ill-understood area of computational mechanism design. We investigate the role of randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-17 Patrick Briest , Shuchi Chawla , Robert Kleinberg , S. Matthew Weinberg

This work presents a methodology for forward electricity contract price projection based on market equilibrium and social welfare optimization. In the methodology supply and demand for forward contracts are produced in such a way that each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Mateus A. Cavaliere , Sergio Granville , Gerson C. Oliveira , Mario V. F. Pereira

Collusion in market pricing is a concept associated with human actions to raise market prices through artificially limited supply. Recently, the idea of algorithmic collusion was put forward, where the human action in the pricing process is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-01-29 Suzie Grondin , Arthur Charpentier , Philipp Ratz

We study the complexity of computing Bayes-Nash equilibria in single-item first-price auctions. We present the first efficient algorithms for the problem, when the bidders' values for the item are independently drawn from the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Alexandros Hollender , Charalampos Kokkalis

Given a batch of human computation tasks, a commonly ignored aspect is how the price (i.e., the reward paid to human workers) of these tasks must be set or varied in order to meet latency or cost constraints. Often, the price is set…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Yihan Gao , Aditya Parameswaran

We propose a decentralized market model in which agents can negotiate bilateral contracts. This builds on a similar, but centralized, model of trading networks introduced by Hatfield et al. in 2013. Prior work has established that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Edwin Lock , Benjamin Patrick Evans , Eleonora Kreacic , Sujay Bhatt , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh , Paul W. Goldberg

We consider a setting where $n$ buyers, with combinatorial preferences over $m$ items, and a seller, running a priority-based allocation mechanism, repeatedly interact. Our goal, from observing limited information about the results of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Avrim Blum , Yishay Mansour , Jamie Morgenstern

Fisher markets are one of the most fundamental models for resource allocation. However, the problem of computing equilibrium prices in Fisher markets typically relies on complete knowledge of users' budgets and utility functions and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Devansh Jalota , Yinyu Ye

This paper unifies two foundational constructs from economics and algorithmic game theory, the Arctic Auction and the linear Fisher market, to address the efficient allocation of differentiated goods in complex markets. Our main…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Vijay V. Vazirani

We develop a market model in which products generate state-dependent potential hidden charges. Firms differ in their ability to realize this potential. Unlike firms, consumers do not observe the state. They try to infer hidden charges from…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-09-24 Yair Antler ad Ran Spiegler

We consider the problem of computing a (pure) Bayes-Nash equilibrium in the first-price auction with continuous value distributions and discrete bidding space. We prove that when bidders have independent subjective prior beliefs about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Alexandros Hollender , Philip Lazos , Diogo Poças

Estimating market impact and transaction costs of large trades (metaorders) is a very important topic in finance. However, using models of price and trade based on public market data provide average price trajectories which are…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-04 Manuel Naviglio , Giacomo Bormetti , Francesco Campigli , German Rodikov , Fabrizio Lillo

We study how loyalty behavior of customers and differing costs to produce undifferentiated products by firms can influence market outcomes. In prior works that study such markets, firm costs have generally been assumed negligible or equal,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-01-25 Theja Tulabandhula , Aris Ouksel , Son Nguyen