6 papers
Incentive Effects of a Cut-Off Score: Optimal Contest Design with Transparent Pre-Selection
Hanbing Liu, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +2
Shortlisting is a common and effective method for pre-selecting participants in competitive settings. To ensure fairness, a cut-off score is typically announced, allowing only cont…
Ex-Ante Truthful Distribution-Reporting Mechanisms
Xiaotie Deng, Yanru Guan, Ningyuan Li +2
This paper studies mechanism design for revenue maximization in a distribution-reporting setting, where the auctioneer does not know the buyers' true value distributions. Instead,…
Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
Ningyuan Li, Zhilin Zhang, Tianyan Long +8
On e-commerce platforms, sellers typically bid for impressions from ad traffic to promote their products. However, for most sellers, the majority of their sales come from organic t…
Optimal Prize Design in Parallel Rank-order Contests
Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +1
This paper investigates a two-stage game-theoretical model with multiple parallel rank-order contests. In this model, each contest designer sets up a contest and determines the pri…
Optimal Contest Design with Entry Restriction
Hanbing Liu, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li +2
This paper explores the design of contests involving contestants, focusing on how the designer decides on the number of contestants allowed and the prize structure with a fixed…
Equilibrium Analysis of Customer Attraction Games
Xiaotie Deng, Hangxin Gan, Ningyuan Li +2
We introduce a game model called "customer attraction game" to demonstrate the competition among online content providers. In this model, customers exhibit interest in various topi…