Activity rules have emerged in recent years as an important aspect of practical auction design. The role of an activity rule in an iterative auction is to suppress strategic behavior by bidders and promote simple, continual, meaningful bidding and thus, price discovery. These rules find...

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Efficient allocation of scarce resources in networks is an important problem worldwide. In this thesis, we focus on resource allocation problems in a network of congested airports. The increasing demand for access to the world's major commercial airports combined with the limited operational...

The recent ubiquity of social networks allows firms to collect vast amount of data on their customers and on their social interactions. We consider a setting where a monopolist sells an indivisible good to consumers who are embedded in a social network. This an important problem as sellers can...