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Deterministic Refund Mechanisms
Saeed Alaei, Shuchi Chawla, Zhiyi Huang +2
We consider a mechanism design setting with a single item and a single buyer who is uncertain about the value of the item. Both the buyer and the seller have a common model for the…
Descending Price Auctions with Bounded Number of Price Levels and Batched Prophet Inequality
Saeed Alaei, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian +1
We consider descending price auctions for selling units of a good to unit demand i.i.d. buyers where there is an exogenous bound of on the number of price levels the auctio…
Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms
Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian +1
We consider a platform's problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate an underlying parameter of interest. We formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal m…
Strategic Dynamic Pricing with Network Effects
Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asuman Ozdaglar
We study the optimal pricing strategy of a monopolist selling homogeneous goods to customers over multiple periods. The customers choose their time of purchase to maximize their pa…
Informational Braess' Paradox: The Effect of Information on Traffic Congestion
Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian +1
To systematically study the implications of additional information about routes provided to certain users (e.g., via GPS-based route guidance systems), we introduce a new class of…