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This paper proposes a simple descriptive model of discrete-time double auction markets for divisible assets. As in the classical models of exchange economies, we consider a finite set of agents described by their initial endowments and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-01-07 Teemu Pennanen

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

A prevalent market structure in the Internet economy consists of buyers and sellers connected by a platform (such as Amazon or eBay) that acts as an intermediary and keeps a share of the revenue of each transaction. While the optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Rad Niazadeh , Yang Yuan , Robert D. Kleinberg

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

We investigate in this paper the theory and econometrics of optimal matchings with competing criteria. The surplus from a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-26 Alfred Galichon , Bernard Salanié

Consider a matching problem on a graph where disjoint sets of vertices are privately owned by self-interested agents. An edge between a pair of vertices indicates compatibility and allows the vertices to match. We seek a mechanism to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Itai Ashlagi , Felix Fischer , Ian A. Kash , Ariel D. Procaccia

We study the problem of maximising terminal utility for an agent facing model uncertainty, in a frictionless discrete-time market with one safe asset and finitely many risky assets. We show that an optimal investment strategy exists if the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-10 Miklós Rásonyi , Andrea Meireles-Rodrigues

With the rapidly growing demand for the cloud services, a need for efficient methods to trade computing resources increases. Commonly used fixed-price model is not always the best approach for trading cloud resources, because of its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Sergei Chichin , Quoc Bao Vo , Ryszard Kowalczyk

The Walras approach to equilibrium focuses on the existence of market prices at which the total demands for goods are matched by the total supplies. Trading activities that might identify such prices by bringing agents together as potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 J. Deride , A. Jofré , R. T. Rockafellar

This paper studies a house allocation problem in a networked housing market, where agents can invite others to join the system in order to enrich their options. Top Trading Cycle is a well-known matching mechanism that achieves a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youjia Zhang , Pingzhong Tang

Many matching markets feature unknown, dynamic arrivals of agents that must match immediately. A caseworker must match an abused child to a foster home, a hospital must assign a patient in critical condition to a room, or a city must place…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-15 Terence Highsmith

Recent trends express the impact of prosumers and small energy resources and storages in distribution systems, due to the increasing uptake of renewable resources. This research studies the effect of coordination of distributed resources…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Amir Noori , Babak Tavassoli , Alireza Fereidunian

Contemporary recommender systems act as intermediaries on multi-sided platforms serving high utility recommendations from sellers to buyers. Such systems attempt to balance the objectives of multiple stakeholders including sellers, buyers,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Harshal A. Chaudhari , Sangdi Lin , Ondrej Linda

We study how to maximize the broker's (expected) profit in a two-sided market, where she buys items from a set of sellers and resells them to a set of buyers. Each seller has a single item to sell and holds a private value on her item, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Jing Chen , Bo Li , Yingkai Li

We discuss the problem of setting prices in an electronic market that has more than one buyer. We assume that there are self-interested sellers each selling a distinct item that has an associated cost. Each buyer has a submodular valuation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Allan Borodin , Akash Rakheja

In markets with budget-constrained buyers, competitive equilibria need not be efficient in the utilitarian sense, or maximise the seller's revenue. We consider a setting with multiple divisible goods. Competitive equilibrium outcomes, and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-09 Simon Finster , Paul W. Goldberg , Edwin Lock

As the widely applied method for measuring matching assortativeness in a transferable utility matching game, a matching maximum score estimation is proposed by \cite{fox2010qe}. This article reveals that combining unmatched agents,…

General Economics · Economics 2024-05-08 Suguru Otani

This paper studies optimal mechanisms for collecting and trading data. Consumers benefit from revealing information about their tastes to a service provider because this improves the service. However, the information is also valuable to a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-29 Jiadong Gu

Resource distribution is a fundamental problem in economic and policy design, particularly when demand and supply are not naturally aligned. Without regulation, wealthier individuals may monopolize this resource, leaving the needs of others…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 David Sychrovský , Jakub Černý , Martin Loebl

Consider a trade market with one seller and multiple buyers. The seller aims to sell an indivisible item and maximize their revenue. This paper focuses on a simple and popular mechanism--the fixed-price mechanism. Unlike the standard…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zhikang Fan , Weiran Shen