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Planning Against a Prophet: A Graph-Theoretic Framework for Making Sequential Decisions
Andrés Cristi, Sigal Oren
We devise a general graph-theoretic framework for studying prophet inequalities. In this framework, an agent traverses a directed acyclic graph from a starting node to a target…
Modeling reputation-based behavioral biases in school choice
Jon Kleinberg, Sigal Oren, Emily Ryu +1
A fundamental component in the theoretical school choice literature is the problem a student faces in deciding which schools to apply to. Recent models have considered a set of sch…
Fairness and Incentive Compatibility via Percentage Fees
Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren, Jan Vondrak
We study incentive-compatible mechanisms that maximize the Nash Social Welfare. Since traditional incentive-compatible mechanisms cannot maximize the Nash Social Welfare even appro…
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…
Mechanisms for Trading Durable Goods
Sigal Oren, Oren Roth
We consider trading indivisible and easily transferable \emph{durable goods}, which are goods that an agent can receive, use, and trade again for a different good. This is often th…
Stochastic Model for Sunk Cost Bias
Jon Kleinberg, Sigal Oren, Manish Raghavan +1
We present a novel model for capturing the behavior of an agent exhibiting sunk-cost bias in a stochastic environment. Agents exhibiting sunk-cost bias take into account the effort…