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11 papers
Strategic Disclosure of Action Space in Principal-Agent Contracts
Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li
We study strategic disclosure of the action space in principal-agent contracting, where an agent selects a disclosed action set to shape the principal's perception of her capabilit…
Incentive Effects of a Cut-Off Score: Optimal Contest Design with Transparent Pre-Selection
Hanbing Liu, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +2
Shortlisting is a common and effective method for pre-selecting participants in competitive settings. To ensure fairness, a cut-off score is typically announced, allowing only cont…
Ex-Ante Truthful Distribution-Reporting Mechanisms
Xiaotie Deng, Yanru Guan, Ningyuan Li +2
This paper studies mechanism design for revenue maximization in a distribution-reporting setting, where the auctioneer does not know the buyers' true value distributions. Instead,…
Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
Ningyuan Li, Zhilin Zhang, Tianyan Long +8
On e-commerce platforms, sellers typically bid for impressions from ad traffic to promote their products. However, for most sellers, the majority of their sales come from organic t…
Optimal Prize Design in Parallel Rank-order Contests
Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +1
This paper investigates a two-stage game-theoretical model with multiple parallel rank-order contests. In this model, each contest designer sets up a contest and determines the pri…
Optimal Contest Design with Entry Restriction
Hanbing Liu, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +2
This paper explores the design of contests involving contestants, focusing on how the designer decides on the number of contestants allowed and the prize structure with a fixed…
Competition among Pairwise Lottery Contests
Xiaotie Deng, Hangxin Gan, Ningyuan Li +2
We investigate a two-stage competitive model involving multiple contests. In this model, each contest designer chooses two participants from a pool of candidate contestants and det…
Equilibrium Analysis of Customer Attraction Games
Xiaotie Deng, Hangxin Gan, Ningyuan Li +2
We introduce a game model called "customer attraction game" to demonstrate the competition among online content providers. In this model, customers exhibit interest in various topi…
Competition among Parallel Contests
Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +1
We investigate the model of multiple contests held in parallel, where each contestant selects one contest to join and each contest designer decides the prize structure to compete f…
On Convergence Lemma and Convergence Stability for Piecewise Analytic Functions
Xiaotie Deng, Hanyu Li, Ningyuan Li
In this work, a convergence lemma for function being finite compositions of analytic mappings and the maximum operator is proved. The lemma shows that the set of -stationary…
On the Complexity of Computing Markov Perfect Equilibrium in General-Sum Stochastic Games
Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, David Mguni +2
Similar to the role of Markov decision processes in reinforcement learning, Stochastic Games (SGs) lay the foundation for the study of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and…