Scale-robust Auctions

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Main Authors: Hartline, Jason, Johnsen, Aleck, Li, Yingkai
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Published: 2025
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author Hartline, Jason
Johnsen, Aleck
Li, Yingkai
author_facet Hartline, Jason
Johnsen, Aleck
Li, Yingkai
contents We study auctions that are robust at any scale, i.e., they can be applied to sell both expensive and cheap items and achieve the best multiplicative approximations of the optimal revenue in the worst case. We show that the optimal mechanism is scale invariant, which randomizes between selling at the second-price and a 2.45 multiple of the second-price.
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spellingShingle Scale-robust Auctions
Hartline, Jason
Johnsen, Aleck
Li, Yingkai
Computer Science and Game Theory
Theoretical Economics
We study auctions that are robust at any scale, i.e., they can be applied to sell both expensive and cheap items and achieve the best multiplicative approximations of the optimal revenue in the worst case. We show that the optimal mechanism is scale invariant, which randomizes between selling at the second-price and a 2.45 multiple of the second-price.
title Scale-robust Auctions
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Theoretical Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21231