4 papers
Dynamic Threats to Credible Auctions
Martino Banchio, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Frank Yang
A seller wants to sell a good to a set of bidders using a credible mechanism. We show that when the seller has private information about her cost, it is impossible for a static mec…
Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz +3
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful o…
Rediscovery
Martino Banchio, Suraj Malladi
We model search in settings where decision makers know what can be found but not where to find it. A searcher faces a set of choices arranged by an observable attribute. Each perio…
Ads in Conversations
Martino Banchio, Aranyak Mehta, Andres Perlroth
We study the optimal placement of advertisements for interactive platforms like conversational AI assistants. Importantly, conversations add a feature absent in canonical search ma…