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Unending Sequential Auctions
Amir Ban
Sequential auctions for identical items with unit-demand, private-value buyers are common and often occur periodically without end, as new bidders replace departing ones. We model…
Budget-Constrained Reinforcement of Ranked Objects
Amir Ban, Moshe Tennenholtz
Commercial entries, such as hotels, are ranked according to score by a search engine or recommendation system, and the score of each can be improved upon by making a targeted inves…
Simple Economies are Almost Optimal
Amir Ban, Avi Cohen, Shahar Dobzinski +1
Consider a seller that intends to auction some item. The seller can invest money and effort in advertising in different market segments in order to recruit bidders to the aucti…
Sequential Fundraising and Mutual Insurance
Amir Ban, Moran Koren
Seed fundraising for ventures often takes place by sequentially approaching potential contributors, who make observable decisions. The fundraising succeeds when a target number of…
A Practical Approach to Social Learning
Amir Ban, Moran Koren
Models of social learning feature either binary signals or abstract signal structures often deprived of micro-foundations. Both models are limited when analyzing interim results or…
Are All Experts Equally Good? A Study of Analyst Earnings Estimates
Amir Ban, Yishay Mansour
We investigate whether experts possess differential expertise when making predictions. We note that this would make it possible to aggregate multiple predictions into a result that…