Sequential Mechanisms with Ex-post Participation Guarantees

How should one sell an item to a buyer whose value for the item will only be realized next week? E.g. consider selling a flight to some executive who may or may not have a meeting with a client next week. Suppose that both the seller and the buyer only know a distribution, F, from which the buyer�...

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Main Authors: Ashlagi, Itai, Daskalakis, Konstantinos, Haghpanah Jahromi, Nima
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110836
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