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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"OPTIMAL MECHANISM"”.
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The optimal mechanism in differential privacy
… most basic problem settings. We first derive the optimal (epsilon)-differentially private mechanism for single real-valued query function under a very general utility-maximization (or cost-minimization) framework. The class of noise probability distributions in the optimal mechanism has …
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The complexity of optimal mechanism design
… provides a computationally efficient revenue-optimal auction for selling one item to multiple bidders. Generalizing this work to selling multiple items at once has been a central question in economics and algorithmic game theory, but its complexity has remained poorly understood. We answer …
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Essays On Mechanism And Information Design
… I frame the intermediary’s problem as a mechanism design problem in which the mechanism designer cannot directly choose the outcome, but must encourage the consumer to choose the desired outcome. I show that in the optimal mechanism, the recommended seller has the largest non-negative …
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Essays on dynamic contracts
… than the agent and both are risk neutral. In the optimal contract where the agent observes the success, the agent is induced to exert full effort until success and report it truthfully. The optimal payment scheme features a combination of wage and deferred bonus. When the agent does not observe …
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The Role Of Conditionally Correlated Variables In Information Economics
… reduces to a multidimensional, multi-product mechanism design problem in which the buyer's payoffs are nonlinear. Hence, I cannot use the common differential approach to solve for the optimal mechanism. I obtain two main results. First, I show that the seller should optimally offer statistics …
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Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa
… to ensure that decentralisation implies the optimal mechanism for development - improved financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government is therefore imperative.
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Algorithms for strategic agents
… on "strategic input," often called algorithmic mechanism design to solving a perturbed version of that same optimization problem when the input is directly given, traditionally called algorithm design. We further demonstrate the power of our framework by making significant progress on several …
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The structure of auctions : optimality and efficiency
… to maximize expected revenue is central to mechanism design and to algorithmic game theory. While the special case of selling a single item has been well understood since the work of Myerson, progress on the multi-item case has been sporadic over the past three decades. In the first part of …
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Essays in economic theory
… and ex-post individually rational direct mechanism, which maximizes a weighted average of the buyer's and seller's expected payoff. When the weight on the buyer is larger, trade happens with certainty, the price equals the seller’s cost, and the buyer does not invest in generating outside …
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Mechanism design : from optimal transport theory to revenue maximization
… the auctioneer's expected revenue. While optimal selling of a single item has been well-understood since the pioneering work of Myerson in 1981, extending his work to multi-item settings has remained a challenge. In this work, we obtain such extensions providing a mathematical framework …
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
… buyers to bid aggressively. I also examine the optimal mechanism design problem when buyers only have private initial estimates of their valuations and may privately learn of shocks that affect their valuations later. When all buyers are \emph{ex-ante} symmetric, this optimal selling mechanism …
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
… essay presents a model---formulated from the mechanism design perspective---for analyzing the reemployment of high-ranking Japanese bureaucrats in the private sector. The third essay presents a bribery-bidding game with multiple corrupt bureaucrats and a private firm to analyze the corruption …
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The emerging role of mesenchymal stromal cells among therapeutic options for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
… Further research is needed to uncover the optimal mechanism of MSC therapy in COPD and whether it will become a new standard of care.
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Essays on strategic communication
The first chapter studies optimal information revelation with one-sided asymmetric information. A sender chooses ex ante how her information will be revealed ex post. A receiver obtains both public information and information revealed by the sender, and then takes one of two actions. The sender …
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Algorithmic Interactions With Strategic Users: Incentives, Interplay, and Impact
… thesis, we formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal mechanism design problem, in which an individual can share her data in exchange for a monetary reward but at the same time has a private heterogeneous privacy cost which we quantify using differential privacy. We consider two popular data …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
… with sabotage. The third chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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Frontiers In Operations Research For Overcoming Barriers To Vehicle Electrification
… in the areas of network optimization and mechanism design.</p> <p>To increase the electric driving range of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), we propose a powertrain energy management control system that exploits energy efficiency dif- ferences of the electric machine and the …
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Essays in information elicitation and market design
… decentralized two-sided matching markets. In ""Mechanisms for making accurate decisions in biased crowds,"" I study decision rules for finding the true answer to a binary question using the opinions of biased agents. Taking majority rule as a baseline, I study peer-prediction decision rules, …
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Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments
The first chapter discusses procurement auction mechanisms under the political constraint that the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate abnormally low bids in order to reduce the probability of ex-post bid …
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ΠΟΛΥΚΡΙΤΗΡΙΑΚΗ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΑΠΟΣΥΝΘΕΣΙΜΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ LAGRANGE ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ
THE ABOVE THESIS RELATES TO THE SUBJECT OF GROUP MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OFLAGRANGE DECOMPOSABLE SYSTEM IN THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION OF BENZENE. THE GENERAL CASE, IN WHICH THE LOCAL DECISION MAKERS OF SYBSYSTEMS GENERALLY USE THEIR OWN VIEWS TO WEIGH THE DIFFERENT CRITERIA IN RELATION TO THEIR …