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2007
Springer
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Maintaining Equilibria During Exploration in Sponsored Search Auctions
We introduce an exploration scheme aimed at learning advertiser click-through rates in sponsored search auctions with minimal effect on advertiser incentives. The scheme preserves...
Jennifer Wortman, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Lihong Li,...
WINE
2007
Springer
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Equilibrium Analysis of Dynamic Bidding in Sponsored Search Auctions
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Daniel M. Reeves
WINE
2007
Springer
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A Theory of Loss-Leaders: Making Money by Pricing Below Cost
We consider the problem of assigning prices to goods of fixed marginal cost in order to maximize revenue in the presence of single-minded customers. We focus in particular on the...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, T.-H. Hubert Cha...
WINE
2007
Springer
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On the Price of Truthfulness in Path Auctions
We study the frugality ratio of truthful mechanisms in path auctions, which measures the extent to which truthful mechanisms “overpay” compared to non-truthful mechanisms. In p...
Qiqi Yan
WINE
2009
Springer
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Bidding for Representative Allocations for Display Advertising
Display advertising has traditionally been sold via guaranteed contracts – a guaranteed contract is a deal between a publisher and an advertiser to allocate a certain number of ...
Arpita Ghosh, Randolph Preston McAfee, Kishore Pap...
WINE
2009
Springer
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The Impact of Social Ignorance on Weighted Congestion Games
We consider weighted linear congestion games, and investigate how social ignorance, namely lack of information about the presence of some players, affects the inefficiency of pure...
Dimitris Fotakis, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Alexis C. Kap...
WINE
2009
Springer
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The Geometry of Truthfulness
We study the geometrical shape of the partitions of the input space created by the allocation rule of a truthful mechanism for multi-unit auctions with multidimensional types and ...
Angelina Vidali
WINE
2009
Springer
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Competitive Repeated Allocation without Payments
We study the problem of allocating a single item repeatedly among multiple competing agents, in an environment where monetary transfers are not possible. We design (Bayes-Nash) inc...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, Daniel M. Reeves
WINE
2009
Springer
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An Online Multi-unit Auction with Improved Competitive Ratio
We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, ...
Sourav Chakraborty, Nikhil R. Devanur
WINE
2009
Springer
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Gaming Dynamic Parimutuel Markets
We study the strategic behavior of risk-neutral non-myopic agents in Dynamic Parimutuel Markets (DPM). In a DPM, agents buy or sell shares of contracts, whose future payoff in a p...
Qianya Lin, Yiling Chen