market design

Near-Efficient Allocation Using Artificial Currency in Repeated Settings

We study the design of mechanisms without money for repeated allocation of resources among competing agents. Such mechanisms are gaining widespread use in allocating physical and/or computing resources in universities and companies, and also …

The Importance of Exploration in Online Marketplaces

In online marketplaces, a critical objective of the platform's intermediation is ensuring the sellers' quality. This is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it's infeasible to pre-screen all sellers, and the platform uses feedback …

The Importance of Exploration in Online Marketplaces

Nearly all online marketplaces face the challenge of ensuring the quality of sellers; this is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it may be infeasible to pre-screen all sellers. A growing trend in such settings is to use feedback …

Re-incentivizing discovery: Mechanisms for partial-progress sharing in research

An essential primitive for an efficient research ecosystem is *partial-progress sharing* (PPS) - whereby a researcher shares information immediately upon making a breakthrough. This helps prevent duplication of work; however there is evidence that …