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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…
Strategy-Proof Incentives for Predictions
Amir Ban
Our aim is to design mechanisms that motivate all agents to reveal their predictions truthfully and promptly. For myopic agents, proper scoring rules induce truthfulness. However,…
The Strategy of Experts for Repeated Predictions
Amir Ban, Yossi Azar, Yishay Mansour
We investigate the behavior of experts who seek to make predictions with maximum impact on an audience. At a known future time, a certain continuous random variable will be realize…
When should an expert make a prediction?
Amir Ban, Yossi Azar, Yishay Mansour
We consider a setting where in a known future time, a certain continuous random variable will be realized. There is a public prediction that gradually converges to its realized val…