2 papers
econ.EM2026
The Privacy-Utility Trade-Off of Location Tracking in Ad Personalization
Mohammad Mosaffa, Omid Rafieian
Firms collect vast amounts of behavioral and geographical data on individuals. While behavioral data captures an individual's digital footprint, geographical data reflects their ph…
cs.GT2025
Auctions Meet Bandits: An Empirical Analysis
Mohammad Rashid, Omid Rafieian, Soheil Ghili
Sponsored search positions are typically allocated through real-time auctions, where the outcomes depend on advertisers' quality-adjusted bids - the product of their bids and quali…