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Optimally Curating an Event
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Sebastien Lahaie, Mohammad Mahdavi +1
We study the optimal design of a self-financing event, a problem that requires balancing the recruitment of costly, positive-value participants with revenue-generating agents who m…
Optimal Contest Beyond Convexity
Negin Golrezaei, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Suho Shin
In the contest design problem, there are strategic contestants, each of whom decides an effort level. A contest designer with a fixed budget must then design a mechanism that a…
Algorithmic Delegated Choice: An Annotated Reading List
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Suho Shin
The problem of delegated choice has been of long interest in economics and recently on computer science. We overview a list of papers on delegated choice problem, from classic work…
Delegation with Costly Inspection
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Piotr Krysta, Mohammad Mahdavi +1
We study the problem of delegated choice with inspection cost (DCIC), which is a variant of the delegated choice problem by Kleinberg and Kleinberg (EC'18) as well as an extension…