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Hallucinating Flows for Optimal Mechanisms
Marios Mertzanidis, Athina Terzoglou
Myerson's seminal characterization of the revenue-optimal auction for a single item \cite{myerson1981optimal} remains a cornerstone of mechanism design. However, generalizing this…
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Pseudo-Equilibria, or: How to Stop Worrying About Crypto and Just Analyze the Game
Alexandros Psomas, Athina Terzoglou, Yu Wei +1
We consider the problem of a game theorist analyzing a game that uses cryptographic protocols. Ideally, a theorist abstracts protocols as ideal, implementation-independent primitiv…