24 citations · 49 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for
14 papers
One-Shot Pricing for Hands-Off-the-Wheel Advertising Markets
Emerson Melo, Matt Shum, Rakesh Vohra
Per-impression auctions have long served as the allocation mechanism in online advertising. We argue that in ``hands-off-the-wheel'' (HOTW) markets, where advertisers declare budge…
Best vs. All: Equity and Accuracy of Standardized Test Score Reporting
Sampath Kannan, Mingzi Niu, Aaron Roth +1
We study a game theoretic model of standardized testing for college admissions. Students are of two types; High and Low. There is a college that would like to admit the High type s…
Constrained Trading Networks
Can Kizilkale, Rakesh Vohra
Trades based on bilateral (indivisible) contracts can be represented by a network. Vertices correspond to agents while arcs represent the non-price elements of a bilateral contract…
Moment Multicalibration for Uncertainty Estimation
Christopher Jung, Changhwa Lee, Mallesh M. Pai +2
We show how to achieve the notion of "multicalibration" from Hébert-Johnson et al. [2018] not just for means, but also for variances and other higher moments. Informally, it means…
Fair Prediction with Endogenous Behavior
Christopher Jung, Sampath Kannan, Changhwa Lee +3
There is increasing regulatory interest in whether machine learning algorithms deployed in consequential domains (e.g. in criminal justice) treat different demographic groups "fair…
Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives on Fairness
David C. Parkes, Rakesh V. Vohra, other workshop participants
Algorithmic systems have been used to inform consequential decisions for at least a century. Recidivism prediction dates back to the 1920s. Automated credit scoring dates began in…
Strategic Formation and Reliability of Supply Chain Networks
Victor Amelkin, Rakesh Vohra
Supply chains are the backbone of the global economy. Disruptions to them can be costly. Centrally managed supply chains invest in ensuring their resilience. Decentralized supply c…
Yield Uncertainty and Strategic Formation of Supply Chain Networks
Victor Amelkin, Rakesh Vohra
How does supply uncertainty affect the structure of supply chain networks? To answer this question we consider a setting where retailers and suppliers must establish a costly relat…
Matroidal Approximations of Independence Systems
Sven de Vries, Rakesh V. Vohra
Milgrom (2017) has proposed a heuristic for determining a maximum weight basis of an independence system given that we want an approximation guarantee only for sets…
Fairness Incentives for Myopic Agents
Sampath Kannan, Michael Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern +4
We consider settings in which we wish to incentivize myopic agents (such as Airbnb landlords, who may emphasize short-term profits and property safety) to treat arriving clients fa…
The Value of Sharing Intermittent Spectrum
Randall Berry, Michael Honig, Thanh Nguyen +2
Recent initiatives by regulatory agencies to increase spectrum resources available for broadband access include rules for sharing spectrum with high-priority incumbents. We study a…
Do Prices Coordinate Markets?
Justin Hsu, Jamie Morgenstern, Ryan Rogers +2
Walrasian equilibrium prices can be said to coordinate markets: They support a welfare optimal allocation in which each buyer is buying bundle of goods that is individually most pr…
Fast Convergence in the Double Oral Auction
Sepehr Assadi, Sanjeev Khanna, Yang Li +1
A classical trading experiment consists of a set of unit demand buyers and unit supply sellers with identical items. Each agent's value or opportunity cost for the item is their pr…
The Cost of Free Spectrum
Thanh Nguyen, Hang Zhou, Randall A. Berry +2
There has been growing interest in increasing the amount of radio spectrum available for unlicensed broad-band wireless access. That includes "prime" spectrum at lower frequencies,…