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On the Distortion of Multi-winner Election Using Single-Candidate Ballots
Gennaro Auricchio, Zeyu Ren, Zihe Wang +1
In this paper, we study the distortion bounds for voting mechanisms in multi-winner elections in general metric spaces. Our study pertains to the case in which each voter only repo…
Bounded Incentives in Manipulating the Probabilistic Serial Rule
Zihe Wang, Zhide Wei, Jie Zhang
The Probabilistic Serial mechanism is well-known for its desirable fairness and efficiency properties. It is one of the most prominent protocols for the random assignment problem.…
Optimal Common Contract with Heterogeneous Agents
Shenke Xiao, Zihe Wang, Mengjing Chen +2
We consider the principal-agent problem with heterogeneous agents. Previous works assume that the principal signs independent incentive contracts with every agent to make them inve…
Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in First-Price Auction with Discrete Value Distributions
Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang, Song Zuo
First price auctions are widely used in government contracts and industrial auctions. In this paper, we consider the Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE) in first price auctions with di…
An Improved Welfare Guarantee for First Price Auctions
Darrell Hoy, Sam Taggart, Zihe Wang
This paper proves that the welfare of the first price auction in Bayes-Nash equilibrium is at least a -fraction of the welfare of the optimal mechanism assuming agents' value…
Hotelling-Downs Model with Limited Attraction
Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang
In this paper we study variations of the standard Hotelling-Downs model of spatial competition, where each agent attracts the clients in a restricted neighborhood, each client rand…