Derandomization of auctions

We study the role of randomization in seller optimal (i.e., profit maximization) auctions. Bayesian optimal auctions (e.g., Myerson, 1981) assume that the valuations of the agents are random draws from a distribution and prior-free optimal auctions either are randomized (e.g., Goldberg et al., 2006)...

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Main Authors: Aggarwal, Gagan, Fiat, Amos, Goldberg, Andrew V., Hartline, Jason D., Immorlica, Nicole, Sudan, Madhu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99342