A simple and approximately optimal mechanism for an additive buyer

M Babaioff, N Immorlica, B Lucier… - Journal of the ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We consider a monopolist seller with n heterogeneous items, facing a single buyer. The
buyer has a value for each item drawn independently according to (non-identical) …

Simple mechanisms for subadditive buyers via duality

Y Cai, M Zhao - Proceedings of the 49th Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We provide simple and approximately revenue-optimal mechanisms in the multi-item multi-
bidder settings. We unify and improve all previous results, as well as generalize the results …

[PDF][PDF] No-regret learning in bilateral trade via global budget balance

M Bernasconi, M Castiglioni, A Celli… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Bilateral trade models the problem of intermediating between two rational agents—a seller
and a buyer—both characterized by a private valuation for an item they want to trade. We …

Approximately efficient bilateral trade

Y Deng, J Mao, B Sivan, K Wang - Proceedings of the 54th Annual ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We study bilateral trade between two strategic agents. The celebrated result of Myerson and
Satterthwaite states that in general, no incentive-compatible, individually rational and weakly …

Bilateral trade: A regret minimization perspective

N Cesa-Bianchi, T Cesari… - Mathematics of …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Bilateral trade, a fundamental topic in economics, models the problem of intermediating
between two strategic agents, a seller and a buyer, willing to trade a good for which they …

A regret analysis of bilateral trade

N Cesa-Bianchi, TR Cesari, R Colomboni… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Bilateral trade, a fundamental topic in economics, models the problem of intermediating
between two strategic agents, a seller and a buyer, willing to trade a good for which they …

Efficient two-sided markets with limited information

P Dütting, F Fusco, P Lazos, S Leonardi… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A celebrated impossibility result by Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983) shows that any truthful
mechanism for two-sided markets that maximizes social welfare must run a deficit, resulting …

An online learning theory of brokerage

N Bolić, T Cesari, R Colomboni - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12107, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate brokerage between traders from an online learning perspective. At any round
$ t $, two traders arrive with their private valuations, and the broker proposes a trading price …

Approximately efficient two-sided combinatorial auctions

R Colini-Baldeschi, PW Goldberg, B Keijzer… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We develop and extend a line of recent work on the design of mechanisms for two-sided
markets. The markets we consider consist of buyers and sellers of a number of items, and …

Muda: A truthful multi-unit double-auction mechanism

E Segal-Halevi, A Hassidim, Y Aumann - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
In a seminal paper, McAfee (1992) presented a truthful mechanism for double auctions,
attaining asymptotically-optimal gain-from-trade without any prior information on the …