Simple mechanisms for a subadditive buyer and applications to revenue monotonicity

We study the revenue maximization problem of a seller with n heterogeneous items for sale to a single buyer whose valuation function for sets of items is unknown and drawn from some distribution D. We show that if D is a distribution over subadditive valuations with independent items, then the bette...

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Main Authors: Matthew Weinberg, S. (Author), Rubinstein, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2018
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