Rank-Guaranteed Auctions

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Main Authors: He, Wei, Li, Jiangtao, Zhong, Weijie
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Published: 2024
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author He, Wei
Li, Jiangtao
Zhong, Weijie
author_facet He, Wei
Li, Jiangtao
Zhong, Weijie
contents We propose a combinatorial ascending auction that is "approximately" optimal, requiring minimal rationality to achieve this level of optimality, and is robust to strategic and distributional uncertainties. Specifically, the auction is rank-guaranteed, meaning that for any menu M and any valuation profile, the ex-post revenue is guaranteed to be at least as high as the highest revenue achievable from feasible allocations, taking the (|M|+ 1)th-highest valuation for each bundle as the price. Our analysis highlights a crucial aspect of combinatorial auction design, namely, the design of menus. We provide simple and approximately optimal menus in various settings.
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He, Wei
Li, Jiangtao
Zhong, Weijie
Theoretical Economics
Computer Science and Game Theory
We propose a combinatorial ascending auction that is "approximately" optimal, requiring minimal rationality to achieve this level of optimality, and is robust to strategic and distributional uncertainties. Specifically, the auction is rank-guaranteed, meaning that for any menu M and any valuation profile, the ex-post revenue is guaranteed to be at least as high as the highest revenue achievable from feasible allocations, taking the (|M|+ 1)th-highest valuation for each bundle as the price. Our analysis highlights a crucial aspect of combinatorial auction design, namely, the design of menus. We provide simple and approximately optimal menus in various settings.
title Rank-Guaranteed Auctions
topic Theoretical Economics
Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12001