3 papers
econ.TH2025
Strategic Pricing and Ranking in Recommendation Systems with Seller Competition
Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha, Jayakrishnan Nair +1
We study a recommendation system where sellers compete for visibility by strategically offering commissions to a platform that optimally curates a ranked menu of items and their re…
econ.TH2024
Equilibrium Cycle: A "Dynamic" Equilibrium
Tushar Shankar Walunj, Shiksha Singhal, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
In this paper, we introduce a novel equilibrium concept, called the equilibrium cycle, which seeks to capture the outcome of oscillatory game dynamics. Unlike the (pure) Nash equil…
econ.TH2024
Partition-form Cooperative Games in Two-Echelon Supply Chains
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha
Competition and cooperation are inherent features of any multi-echelon supply chain. The interactions among the agents across the same echelon and that across various echelons infl…