Title
Dynamic Double Auctions - Towards First Best.
Abstract
We study the problem of designing dynamic double auctions for two-sided markets in which a platform intermediates the trade between one seller offering independent items to multiple buyers, repeatedly over a finite horizon, when agents have private values. Motivated by online advertising and ride-hailing markets, we seek to design mechanisms satisfying the following properties: no positive transfers, i.e., the platform never asks the seller to make payments nor buyers are ever paid and periodic individual rationality, i.e., every agent should derive a non-negative utility from every trade opportunity. We provide mechanisms satisfying these requirements that are asymptotically efficient and budget-balanced with high probability as the number of trading opportunities grows. Moreover, we show that the average expected profit obtained by the platform under these mechanisms asymptotically approaches first best (the maximum possible welfare generated by the market).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.5555/3310435.3310446
SODA '19: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms San Diego California January, 2019
Field
DocType
Citations 
Revenue management,Discrete mathematics,Mathematical economics,Computer science,Common value auction
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Santiago R. Balseiro1737.93
VAHAB S. MIRROKNI24309287.14
renato paes333136.45
Song Zuo42913.06