3 papers
cs.GT2026
Pricing with a Hidden Sample
Zhihao Gavin Tang, Yixin Tao, Shixin Wang
We study prior-independent pricing for selling a single item to a single buyer when the seller observes only a single sample from the valuation distribution, while the buyer knows…
cs.GT2025
Fisher Meets Lindahl: A Unified Duality Framework for Market Equilibrium
Yixin Tao, Weiqiang Zheng
The Fisher market equilibrium for private goods and the Lindahl equilibrium for public goods are classic and fundamental solution concepts for market equilibria. While Fisher marke…
cs.GT2025
Tight Efficiency Bounds for the Probabilistic Serial and Related Mechanisms
Jugal Garg, Yixin Tao, László A. Végh
The Probabilistic Serial (PS) mechanism -- also known as the simultaneous eating algorithm -- is a canonical solution for the random assignment problem under ordinal preferences. I…