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    <title>[1311.0913] General-sum Bidding Games</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-14T23:03:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0913</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bidding games are extensive form games, where in each turn players bid in order to determine who will play next. Zero-sum bidding games (also known as Richman games) have been thoroughly studied, focusing on the fraction of the initial budget that can guaranty a victory for each player [Lazarus et al.'99, Develin and Payne '10]. 
We extend the theory of bidding games to general-sum two player games, analyzing pure subgame-perfect Nash equilibria (PSPE). Although the game has simultaneous steps, we prove that a PSPE exists for any initial budget partition. Curiously, while any bidding game has at least one PSPE, in the general case having more budget may hurt a player. Moreover, the PSPEs of the game may be arbitrarily bad for both players compared to other outcomes. 
We show that if the underlying game has the form of a binary tree (only two actions available to the players in each node), then a there exists a natural PSPE with the following highly desirable properties: (a) players' utility is weakly monotone in their budget; (b) a Pareto-efficient outcome is reached for any initial budget; and (c) for any Pareto-efficient outcome there is an initial budget s.t. this outcome is attained. In particular, we can assign the budget so as to implement the outcome with maximum social welfare, maximum Egalitarian welfare, etc. 
We discuss implications of this result for various games and mechanism design problems, including Centipede games, lobbying, voting games, and combinatorial auctions.
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    <title>[1205.2607] Simulation-Based Game Theoretic Analysis of Keyword Auctions with Low-Dimensional Bidding Strategies</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-02T23:10:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2607</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We perform a simulation-based analysis of keyword auctions modeled as one-shot games of incomplete information to study a series of mechanism design questions. Our first question addresses the degree to which incentive compatibility fails in generalized second-price (GSP) auctions. Our results suggest that sincere bidding in GSP auctions is a strikingly poor strategy and a poor predictor of equilibrium outcomes. We next show that the rank-by-revenue mechanism is welfare optimal, corroborating past results. Finally, we analyze profit as a function of auction mechanism under a series of alternative settings. Our conclusions coincide with those of Lahaie and Pennock [2007] when values and quality scores are strongly positively correlated: in such a case, rank-by-bid rules are clearly superior. We diverge, however, in showing that auctions that put little weight on quality scores almost universally dominate the pure rank-by-revenue scheme."]]></description>
<dc:subject>game-theory agent-based simulation economics auction nudge-targets</dc:subject>
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    <title>Listing Recent Prices for EC2 Spot Instances - Alestic.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-15T13:39:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://alestic.com/2009/12/ec2-spot-instance-prices</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The best way to approach auction type situations like this is often to simply list the maximum price you can afford. Your instance(s) will get run if and when the spot instance price reaches that price and you will regularly get charged less depending on what other users are bidding for their instances.

Though I don’t recommend trying to chase the spot instance price around, it is natural to be curious about what others have been paying and whether or not you might have a chance to get in with your bid."
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<dc:subject>spot-pricing Amazon economics auction pricing EC2 data-analysis</dc:subject>
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    <title>Amazon EC2 Spot Instances</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-15T13:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Spot Instances are a new way to purchase and consume Amazon EC2 Instances. They allow customers to bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price. The Spot Price changes periodically based on supply and demand, and customers whose bids meet or exceed it gain access to the available Spot Instances. Spot Instances are complementary to On-Demand Instances and Reserved Instances, providing another option for obtaining compute capacity."
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<dc:subject>grid-computing cloud-computing EC2 Amazon markets auction ecommerce</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fritinancy: Word of the Week: Calor Licitantis</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-18T12:58:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/10/word-of-the-week-calor-licitantis.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Calor licitantis: Bidder's heat, also known as auction fever. The term was coined in ancient Rome to define the sometimes-irrational behavior of bidders at auctions."
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    <title>Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library - News Briefs</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-15T22:51:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library will have a Fund Raiser in the form of an Auction on Friday, March 20th, 2009"
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    <title>Google may get its open-access wishes after all; will bid in 700MHz auction</title>
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    <title>Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The Necropathic Spectregraph - Steampunk Paraphysics</title>
    <dc:date>2007-09-22T21:12:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/?p=607</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>eBay art sculpture steampunk design auction prop</dc:subject>
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    <title>Americana Exchange - Rare Books, Book Auctions, Collecting Old Antique Books</title>
    <dc:date>2007-09-18T15:14:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://americanaexchange.com/NewAE/aedatabase/aedatabase.asp</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via Garrett Scott, Bookseller
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    <title>Mike Davidson: How to Snatch an Expiring Domain</title>
    <dc:date>2007-05-21T13:52:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wonder how accurate info is after two years.
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    <title>eBay Mulling Changes to Deal with State Regulation</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-05T20:37:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m03/i05/s02</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the major changes to their selling agreements that will occur in 2007 is a requirement by eBay that anyone accepting consignments for auction who holds themselves out to be an auctioneer, who participates in auctioneering or who advertises that th
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