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Mechanism Design with Moral Bidders
Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren
A rapidly growing literature on lying in behavioral economics and psychology shows that individuals often do not lie even when lying maximizes their utility. In this work, we attem…
A Note on the Gains from Trade of the Random-Offerer Mechanism
Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Ron Kupfer
We study the classic bilateral trade setting. Myerson and Satterthwaite show that there is no Bayesian incentive compatible and budget-balanced mechanism that obtains the gains fro…
Simple Economies are Almost Optimal
Amir Ban, Avi Cohen, Shahar Dobzinski +1
Consider a seller that intends to auction some item. The seller can invest money and effort in advertising in different market segments in order to recruit bidders to the aucti…
Are Gross Substitutes a Substitute for Submodular Valuations?
Shahar Dobzinski, Uriel Feige, Michal Feldman +1
The class of gross substitutes (GS) set functions plays a central role in Economics and Computer Science. GS belongs to the hierarchy of {\em complement free} valuations introduced…