5 papers
Deterministic Refund Mechanisms
Saeed Alaei, Shuchi Chawla, Zhiyi Huang +2
We consider a mechanism design setting with a single item and a single buyer who is uncertain about the value of the item. Both the buyer and the seller have a common model for the…
On Three-Layer Data Markets
Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi +1
We study a three-layer data market comprising users (data owners), platforms, and a data buyer. Each user benefits from platform services in exchange for data, incurring privacy lo…
The Limits of Price Discrimination Under Privacy Constraints
Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi +1
We study a producer's problem of selling a product to a continuum of privacy-conscious consumers, where the producer can implement third-degree price discrimination, offering diffe…
Descending Price Auctions with Bounded Number of Price Levels and Batched Prophet Inequality
Saeed Alaei, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian +1
We consider descending price auctions for selling units of a good to unit demand i.i.d. buyers where there is an exogenous bound of on the number of price levels the auctio…
On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods
Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasan
In the context of auctions for digital goods, an interesting random sampling auction has been proposed by Goldberg, Hartline, and Wright [2001]. This auction has been analyzed by F…