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Study strategic dynamic pricing for buyers with unknown manipulation costs.

The paper addresses fairness in dynamic pricing for strategic buyers.

A new pricing strategy minimizes regret by controlling strategic buyer behavior.

We study revenue optimization learning algorithms for repeated second-price auctions with reserve where a seller interacts with multiple strategic bidders each of which holds a fixed private valuation for a good and seeks to maximize his expected future cumulative discounted surplus. We propose a novel algorithm that h…

Ad exchanges use CORP to set reserve prices against strategic buyers.

We study revenue optimization learning algorithms for repeated posted-price auctions where a seller interacts with a single strategic buyer that holds a fixed private valuation for a good and seeks to maximize his cumulative discounted surplus. For this setting, first, we propose a novel algorithm that never decreases …

The paper analyzes regret in bilateral trade mechanisms without prior valuations.

We present a dynamical many-body theory of money in which the value of money is a time dependent ``strategic variable'' that is chosen by the individual agents. The value of money in equilibrium is not fixed by the equations, and thus represents a continuous symmetry. The dynamics breaks this continuous symmetry by fix…

Arora, Barak, Brunnermeier, and Ge showed that taking computational complexity into account, a dishonest seller could strategically place lemons in financial derivatives to make them substantially less valuable to buyers. We show that if the seller is required to construct derivatives of a certain form, then this pheno…

We investigate the structure of global inter-firm linkages using a dataset that contains information on business partners for about 400,000 firms worldwide, including all the firms listed on the major stock exchanges. Among the firms, we examine three networks, which are based on customer-supplier, licensee-licensor, a…

The paper analyzes strategic interactions in a multi-agent reinsurance chain using game theory.

Study identifies 1,012 persistent wallet cohorts on Solana pump.fun, showing coordinated buying behavior.

We consider the problem of a single seller repeatedly selling a single item to a single buyer (specifically, the buyer has a value drawn fresh from known distribution $D$ in every round). Prior work assumes that the buyer is fully rational and will perfectly reason about how their bids today affect the seller's decisio…

UNMIX identifies hidden buyers in darknet markets by clustering anonymized IDs.

We consider an American contingent claim on a financial market where the buyer has additional information. Both agents (seller and buyer) observe the same prices, while the information available to them may differ due to some extra exogenous knowledge the buyer has. The buyer's information flow is modeled by an initial…

In Part III of this study, we apply the price dynamical model with big buyers and big sellers developed in Part I of this paper to the daily closing prices of the top 20 banking and real estate stocks listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The basic idea is to estimate the strength parameters of the big buyers and the…

We propose a continuum model for the description of buyer and seller dynamics in an Internet market. The relevant variables are the research effort of buyers and the sellers' reputation building process. We show that, if a commercial web-site gives consumers the possibility to rate credibly sellers they bargained with,…

In an online contract selection problem there is a seller which offers a set of contracts to sequentially arriving buyers whose types are drawn from an unknown distribution. If there exists a profitable contract for the buyer in the offered set, i.e., a contract with payoff higher than the payoff of not accepting any c…

In market modeling, one often treats buyers as a homogeneous group. In this paper we consider buyers with heterogeneous preferences and products available in many variants. Such a framework allows us to successfully model various market phenomena. In particular, we investigate how is the vendor's behavior influenced by…

NFT art market shows strong preferential ties among sellers and buyers.

In this comment we discuss the problem of reconciling the linear efficiency of price returns with the long-memory of supply and demand. We present new evidence that shows that efficiency is maintained by a liquidity imbalance that co-moves with the imbalance of buyer vs. seller initiated transactions. For example, duri…

Why is ``worthless'' fiat money generally accepted as payment for goods and services? In equilibrium theory, the value of money is generally not determined: the number of equations is one less than the number of unknowns, so only relative prices are determined. In the language of mathematics, the equations are ``homoge…

The majority of recommender systems are designed to recommend items (such as movies and products) to users. We focus on the problem of recommending buyers to sellers which comes with new challenges: (1) constraints on the number of recommendations buyers are part of before they become overwhelmed, (2) constraints on th…

We consider a simple market where a vendor offers multiple variants of a certain product and preferences of both the vendor and potential buyers are heterogeneous and possibly even antagonistic. Optimization of the joint benefit of the vendor and the buyers turns the toy market into a combinatorial matching problem. We…

We propose a new efficient online algorithm to learn the parameters governing the purchasing behavior of a utility maximizing buyer, who responds to prices, in a repeated interaction setting. The key feature of our algorithm is that it can learn even non-linear buyer utility while working with arbitrary price constrain…

The paper analyzes auction theory and its impact on buyer demographics.

Task-agnostic data valuation without validation requirements.

Study shows house buyers in Christchurch value earthquake risk differently based on time since 2011 quake.

Model studies money exchange stability in social networks.

Buyer--seller relationships among firms can be regarded as a longitudinal network in which the connectivity pattern evolves as each firm receives productivity shocks. Based on a data set describing the evolution of buyer--seller links among 55,608 firms over a decade and structural equation modeling, we find some evide…

Model shows how Ethereum can capture MEV from block construction, but centralization remains a concern.

We show, under weaker assumptions than in the previous literature, that a perpetual optimal stopping game always has a value. We also show that there exists an optimal stopping time for the seller, but not necessarily for the buyer. Moreover, conditions are provided under which the existence of an optimal stopping time…

Optimal buying and selling times for homes in fluctuating interest rates.

The paper analyzes reinsurance strategies in a competitive multi-agent system.

Study proves duality in exotic option pricing under uncertain model and delayed information.

We study pricing and (super)hedging for American options in an imperfect market model with default, where the imperfections are taken into account via the nonlinearity of the wealth dynamics. The payoff is given by an RCLL adapted process $(ξ_t)$. We define the {\em seller's superhedging price} of the American option a…

In the recent paper \cite{DESZ}, the notion of $\mathscr{Y}^{g,ξ}$-submartingale processes has been introduced. Within a jump-diffusion model, we prove here that a process $X$ which satisfies the simultaneous $\mathscr{Y}^{\mathbb{Q},g,ξ}$ -submartingale property under a suitable family of equivalent probability measur…

AI framework predicts invoice dilution in supply chain finance.

New framework for robust uncertainty quantification in strategic settings.

This paper develops a pricing model for data assets from the buyer's perspective.

The credit crisis of 2007 and 2008 has thrown much focus on the models used to price mortgage backed securities. Many institutions have relied heavily on the credit ratings provided by credit agency. The relationships between management of credit agencies and debt issuers may have resulted in conflict of interest when …

Paper generalizes strategic classification framework and introduces SVC for PAC-learning.

New framework reduces strategic manipulation cost for minority groups in fair classification.

Study compares employers with and without anticipating strategic labor force responses.

Study breaks down graphs into structural and featural components for task-agnostic data valuation.

Analyzes national real estate investment risks and returns.

New pricing theory solves St. Petersburg paradox.

New framework shows strategic behavior is actually a form of causal modeling.