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We consider the problem of posting prices for unit-demand buyers if all $n$ buyers have identically distributed valuations drawn from a distribution with monotone hazard rate. We show that even with multiple items asymptotically optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Alexander Braun , Matthias Buttkus , Thomas Kesselheim

We present our results on Uniform Price Auctions, one of the standard sealed-bid multi-unit auction formats, for selling multiple identical units of a single good to multi-demand bidders. Contrary to the truthful and economically efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Evangelos Markakis , Orestis Telelis

In the quest for market mechanisms that are easy to implement, yet close to optimal, few seem as viable as posted pricing. Despite the growing body of impressive results, the performance of most posted price mechanisms however, rely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Shreyas Sekar

We study multi-agent contracts, in which a principal delegates a task to multiple agents and incentivizes them to exert effort. Prior research has mostly focused on maximizing the principal's utility, often resulting in highly disparate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ke Ding , Bo Li , Ankang Sun

In this paper we study the problem of allocating a scarce resource among several players (or agents). A central decision maker wants to maximize the total utility of all agents. However, such a solution may be unfair for one or more agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici , Ulrich Pferschy

We investigate how asymmetric information affects equilibrium price formation in an economy with many interacting agents. Motivated by a finite-player model with two populations of asymmetrically informed agents, we study its mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Alekos Cecchin , Markus Fischer , Claudio Fontana , Giacomo Lanaro

We study anonymous posted price mechanisms for combinatorial auctions in a Bayesian framework. In a posted price mechanism, item prices are posted, then the consumers approach the seller sequentially in an arbitrary order, each purchasing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Michal Feldman , Nick Gravin , Brendan Lucier

We consider dynamic pricing schemes in online settings where selfish agents generate online events. Previous work on online mechanisms has dealt almost entirely with the goal of maximizing social welfare or revenue in an auction settings.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Alon Eden , Amos Fiat , Łukasz Jeż

In this work, we revisit the problem of fairly allocating a number of indivisible items that are located on a line to multiple agents. A feasible allocation requires that the allocated items to each agent are connected on the line. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ankang Sun , Bo Li

Models of auctions or tendering processes are introduced. In every round of bidding the players select their bid from a probability distribution and whenever a bid is unsuccessful, it is discarded and replaced. For simple models, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 R. D'Hulst , G. J. Rodgers

Online platforms in the Internet Economy commonly incorporate recommender systems that recommend products (or "arms") to users (or "agents"). A key challenge in this domain arises from myopic agents who are naturally incentivized to exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowu Dai , Wenlu Xu , Yuan Qi , Michael I. Jordan

In various markets where sellers compete in price, price oscillations are observed rather than convergence to equilibrium. Such fluctuations have been empirically observed in the retail market for gasoline, in airline pricing and in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Moshe Babaioff , Renato Paes Leme , Balasubramanian Sivan

The emergent behavior of a distributed system is conditioned by the information available to the local decision-makers. Therefore, one may expect that providing decision-makers with more information will improve system performance; in this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Bryce L. Ferguson , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

Interference between treated and untreated units is a source of bias in marketplace experiments. In this paper, we specifically consider pricing interventions, in which a platform seeks to adjust base pricing levels at the marketplace level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Arthur Delarue , Kleanthis Karakolios

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items among a set of agents. We consider the notion of (approximate) maximin share (MMS) and we provide an improved lower bound of $1/2$ (which is tight) for the case of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-10 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis , Symeon Mastrakoulis , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among a set of agents. Our focus is on the existence of allocations that give each agent their maximin fair share--the value they are guaranteed if they divide the goods into as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sirin Botan , Angus Ritossa , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

Dynamic pricing schemes were introduced as an alternative to posted-price mechanisms. In contrast to static models, the dynamic setting allows to update the prices between buyer-arrivals based on the remaining sets of items and buyers, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Kristóf Bérczi , Erika R. Bérczi-Kovács , Evelin Szögi

A seller is selling a pair of divisible complementary goods to an agent. The agent consumes the goods only in a specific ratio and freely disposes of excess in either goods. The value of the bundle and the ratio are private information of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-15 Komal Malik , Kolagani Paramahamsa

Motivated by the problem of market power in electricity markets, we introduced in previous works a mechanism for simplified markets of two agents with linear cost. In standard procurement auctions, the market power resulting from the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-07-25 Benjamin Heymann , Alejandro Jofré

A combinatorial market consists of a set of indivisible items and a set of agents, where each agent has a valuation function that specifies for each subset of items its value for the given agent. From an optimization point of view, the goal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Kristóf Bérczi , Laura Codazzi , Julian Golak , Alexander Grigoriev