Introductory Workshop: Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design: "Recent Developments in the Analysis of Markets for Indivisible Goods"
Presenter
September 13, 2023
Keywords:
- market design
- mechanism design
- auctions
- matching
- approximation
- equilibrium analysis
- algorithmic game theory
- complexity
- economic theory
- discrete optimization
- graph theory
- mathematical programming
Abstract
Indivisibility of goods is an important feature of many markets, such as high-value auctions. I will overview recent work on the consumer theory and equilibrium theory of such markets and draw connections to the classic analysis of convex economies.