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We study the optimal pricing strategy of a monopolist selling homogeneous goods to customers over multiple periods. The customers choose their time of purchase to maximize their payoff that depends on their valuation of the product, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Azarakhsh Malekian , Asuman Ozdaglar

In revenue maximization of selling a digital product in a social network, the utility of an agent is often considered to have two parts: a private valuation, and linearly additive influences from other agents. We study the incomplete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Wei Chen , Pinyan Lu , Xiaorui Sun , Bo Tang , Yajun Wang , Zeyuan Allen Zhu

We study the problems of pricing an indivisible product to consumers who are embedded in a given social network. The goal is to maximize the revenue of the seller. We assume impatient consumers who buy the product as soon as the seller…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Zhigang Cao , Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

A monopoly platform sells either a risky product (with unknown utility) or a safe product (with known utility) to agents who sequentially arrive and learn the utility of the risky product by the reporting of previous agents. It is costly…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-12-12 Kaiwei Zhang , Xi Weng , Xienan Cheng

The online retailers network models are considered. In some nodes of the network consumers are located. Each consumer wishes to purchase a particular product at minimal cost due to the price of goods and transport corruption costs. Also, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Oleg Malafeyev , Nadezhda Redinskikh , Nikolay Rumyantsev

A monopolist offers personalized prices to consumers with unit demand, heterogeneous values, and idiosyncratic costs, who differ in a protected characteristic, such as race or gender. The seller is subject to a non-discrimination…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-27 Philipp Strack , Kai Hao Yang

We consider the pricing problem faced by a seller who assigns a price to a good that confers its benefits not only to its buyers, but also to other individuals around them. For example, a snow-blower is potentially useful not only to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Michal Feldman , David Kempe , Brendan Lucier , Renato Paes Leme

This paper studies a class of network games with linear-quadratic payoffs and externalities exerted through a strictly concave interaction function. This class of game is motivated by the diminishing marginal effects with peer influences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jiamin Cai , Chenyue Zhang , Hoi-To Wai

We study how to optimally segment monopolistic markets with a redistributive objective. We characterize optimal redistributive segmentations and show that they (i) induce the seller to price progressively, i.e., charge richer consumers…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-14 Victor Augias , Alexis Ghersengorin , Daniel M. A. Barreto

A monopolist wishes to maximize her profits by finding an optimal price policy. After she announces a menu of products and prices, each agent $x$ will choose to buy that product $y(x)$ which maximizes his own utility, if positive. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Robert J. McCann , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

Most products are produced and sold by supply chain networks, where an interconnected network of producers and intermediaries set prices to maximize their profits. I show that there exists a unique equilibrium in a price-setting game on a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Toomas Hinnosaar

We study the optimal usage-based pricing problem in a resource-constrained network with one profit-maximizing service provider and multiple groups of surplus-maximizing users. With the assumption that the service provider knows the utility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Shuqin Li , Jianwei Huang

We study the problem of pricing under a Multinomial Logit model where we incorporate network effects over the consumer's decisions. We analyse both cases, when sellers compete or collaborate. In particular, we pay special attention to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Felipe Maldonado , Gerardo Berbeglia , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We consider a monopolist seller with $n$ heterogeneous items, facing a single buyer. The buyer has a value for each item drawn independently according to (non-identical) distributions, and her value for a set of items is additive. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Moshe Babaioff , Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , S. Matthew Weinberg

We study the efficiency of allocations in large markets with a network structure where every seller owns an edge in a graph and every buyer desires a path connecting some nodes. While it is known that stable allocations in such settings can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

In this paper, the optimal pricing strategy in Avellande-Stoikov's for a monopolistic dealer is extended to a general situation where multiple dealers are present in a competitive market. The dealers' trading intensities, their optimal bid…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-12-31 Wai-Ki Ching , Jia-Wen Gu , Qing-Qing Yang , Tak-Kuen Siu

The revenue maximization problem of service provider is considered and different pricing schemes to solve the above problem are implemented. The service provider can choose an apt pricing scheme subjected to limited resources, if he knows…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Aditya Goyal , Akanksha Tyagi , Manisha Bhende , Swapnil Kawade

We consider a robust version of the revenue maximization problem, where a single seller wishes to sell $n$ items to a single unit-demand buyer. In this robust version, the seller knows the buyer's marginal value distribution for each item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Moshe Babaioff , Michal Feldman , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Brendan Lucier , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

In many shopping scenarios, e.g., in online shopping, customers have a large menu of options to choose from. However, most of the buyers do not browse all the options and make decision after considering only a small part of the menu. To…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Nick Gravin , Zhihao Gavin Tang

Combinatorial Auctions are a central problem in Algorithmic Mechanism Design: pricing and allocating goods to buyers with complex preferences in order to maximize some desired objective (e.g., social welfare, revenue, or profit). The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Avrim Blum , Anupam Gupta , Yishay Mansour , Ankit Sharma
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