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How to sell an app: pay-per-play or buy-it-now?
Shuchi Chawla, Nikhil R. Devanur, Anna Karlin +1
We consider pricing in settings where a consumer discovers his value for a good only as he uses it, and the value evolves with each use. We explore simple and natural pricing strat…
Price Competition, Fluctuations, and Welfare Guarantees
Moshe Babaioff, Renato Paes Leme, Balasubramanian Sivan
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 r…
Perfect Bayesian Equilibria in Repeated Sales
Nikhil R. Devanur, Yuval Peres, Balasubramanian Sivan
A special case of Myerson's classic result describes the revenue-optimal equilibrium when a seller offers a single item to a buyer. We study a repeated sales extension of this mode…
Towards Optimal Algorithms for Prediction with Expert Advice
Nick Gravin, Yuval Peres, Balasubramanian Sivan
We study the classical problem of prediction with expert advice in the adversarial setting with a geometric stopping time. In 1965, Cover gave the optimal algorithm for the case of…