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Auctions Meet Bandits: An Empirical Analysis
Mohammad Rashid, Omid Rafieian, Soheil Ghili
Sponsored search positions are typically allocated through real-time auctions, where the outcomes depend on advertisers' quality-adjusted bids - the product of their bids and quali…
econ.GN2025
Second-degree Price Discrimination: Theoretical Analysis, Experiment Design, and Empirical Estimation
Soheil Ghili, K. Sudhir, Nitish Jain +1
We build on theoretical results from the mechanism design literature to analyze empirical models of second-degree price discrimination (2PD). We show that for a random-coefficients…