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Randomized FIFO Mechanisms
Francisco Castro, Hongyao Ma, Hamid Nazerzadeh +1
We study the matching of jobs to workers in a queue, e.g. a ridesharing platform dispatching drivers to pick up riders at an airport. Under FIFO dispatching, the heterogeneity in t…
Matching Queues, Flexibility and Incentives
Chiwei Yan, Francisco Castro, Peter Frazier +2
Problem definition: In many matching markets, some agents are fully flexible, while others only accept a subset of jobs. For example, ridesharing drivers can specify on the platfor…
Dynamic Reserve Prices for Repeated Auctions: Learning from Bids
Yash Kanoria, Hamid Nazerzadeh
A large fraction of online advertisement is sold via repeated second price auctions. In these auctions, the reserve price is the main tool for the auctioneer to boost revenues. In…
Driver Surge Pricing
Nikhil Garg, Hamid Nazerzadeh
Ride-hailing marketplaces like Uber and Lyft use dynamic pricing, often called surge, to balance the supply of available drivers with the demand for rides. We study driver-side pay…
An Optimal Dynamic Mechanism for Multi-Armed Bandit Processes
Sham M. Kakade, Ilan Lobel, Hamid Nazerzadeh
We consider the problem of revenue-optimal dynamic mechanism design in settings where agents' types evolve over time as a function of their (both public and private) experience wit…