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Combinatorial Contracts
Paul Duetting, Tomer Ezra, Michal Feldman +1
We introduce a new model of combinatorial contracts in which a principal delegates the execution of a costly task to an agent. To complete the task, the agent can take any subset o…
Asymptotically Optimal Welfare of Posted Pricing for Multiple Items with MHR Distributions
Alexander Braun, Matthias Buttkus, Thomas Kesselheim
We consider the problem of posting prices for unit-demand buyers if all buyers have identically distributed valuations drawn from a distribution with monotone hazard rate. We s…
Truthful Mechanisms for Two-Sided Markets via Prophet Inequalities
Alexander Braun, Thomas Kesselheim
We design novel mechanisms for welfare-maximization in two-sided markets. That is, there are buyers willing to purchase items and sellers holding items initially, both acting ratio…