Algorithmic Mechanism Design With Investment

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Econometrica Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI:10.3982/ECTA19559

Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Michael Li, Shengwu Li, Paul Milgrom

引用次数: 1

Abstract

We study the investment incentives created by truthful mechanisms that allocate resources using approximation algorithms. Some approximation algorithms guarantee nearly 100% of the optimal welfare in the allocation problem but guarantee nothing when accounting for investment incentives. An algorithm's allocative and investment guarantees coincide if and only if its confirming negative externalities are sufficiently small. We introduce fast approximation algorithms for the knapsack problem that have no confirming negative externalities and guarantees close to 100% for both allocation and investment.

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有投资的算法机制设计

我们研究了使用近似算法分配资源的真实机制所产生的投资激励。有些近似算法在分配问题上几乎能保证 100%的最优福利，但在考虑投资激励时却什么也保证不了。当且仅当算法确认的负外部性足够小时，算法的分配保证和投资保证才会重合。我们介绍了knapsack问题的快速近似算法，这些算法没有确认的负外部性，并且在分配和投资方面都有接近100%的保证。

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Econometrica 社会科学-数学跨学科应用

CiteScore

11.00

自引率

3.30%

发文量

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

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