3 papers
cs.GT2025
Repeated Sales with Heterogeneous Buyer Sophistication
Rishi Patel, Emmanouil Pountourakis, Samuel Taggart
This paper considers behavior-based price discrimination in the repeated sale of a non-durable good to a single long-lived buyer, by a seller without commitment power. We assume th…
cs.GT2025
Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes via Utility Alignment: Unit-Demand Pricing and More
Robin Bowers, Marius Garbea, Emmanouil Pountourakis +1
This paper derives polynomial-time approximation schemes for several NP-hard stochastic optimization problems from the algorithmic mechanism design and operations research literatu…
cs.GT2024
Simple Delegated Choice
Ali Khodabakhsh, Emmanouil Pountourakis, Samuel Taggart
This paper studies delegation in a model of discrete choice. In the delegation problem, an uninformed principal must consult an informed agent to make a decision. Both the agent an…