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Informal and Privatized Transit: Incentives, Efficiency and Coordination
Devansh Jalota, Matthew Tsao
Informal and privatized transit services, such as minibuses and shared auto-rickshaws, are integral to daily travel in large urban metropolises, providing affordable commutes where…
Simple vs. Optimal Congestion Pricing
Devansh Jalota, Xuan Di, Adam N. Elmachtoub
Congestion pricing has emerged as an effective tool for mitigating traffic congestion, yet implementing welfare or revenue-optimal dynamic tolls is often impractical. Most real-wor…
Online Learning for Equilibrium Pricing in Markets under Incomplete Information
Devansh Jalota, Haoyuan Sun, Navid Azizan
The computation of equilibrium prices at which the supply of goods matches their demand typically relies on complete information on agents' private attributes, e.g., suppliers' cos…
To Spend or to Gain: Online Learning in Repeated Karma Auctions
Damien Berriaud, Ezzat Elokda, Devansh Jalota +4
Recent years have seen a surge of artificial currency-based mechanisms in contexts where monetary instruments are deemed unfair or inappropriate, e.g., in allocating food donations…
Stochastic Online Fisher Markets: Static Pricing Limits and Adaptive Enhancements
Devansh Jalota, Yinyu Ye
Fisher markets are one of the most fundamental models for resource allocation. However, the problem of computing equilibrium prices in Fisher markets typically relies on complete k…
When Simple is Near Optimal in Security Games
Devansh Jalota, Michael Ostrovsky, Marco Pavone
Fraud is ubiquitous across applications and involve users bypassing the rule of law, often with the strategic aim of obtaining some benefit that would otherwise be unattainable wit…