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No Screening is More Efficient with Multiple Objects 多对象筛选更高效
Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: arxiv-2408.10077
Shunya Noda, Genta Okada
We study efficient mechanism design for allocating multiple heterogeneousobjects. We aim to maximize the residual surplus, the total value generatedfrom an allocation minus the costs for screening agents' values. We discover arobust trend indicating that no-screening mechanisms such as serialdictatorship with exogenous priority order tend to perform better as thevariety of goods increases. We analyze the underlying reasons by characterizingefficient mechanisms in a stylized environment. We also apply an automatedmechanism design approach to numerically derive efficient mechanisms andvalidate the trend in general environments. Building on this implication, wepropose the register-invite-book system (RIB) as an efficient system forscheduling vaccination against pandemic diseases.
我们研究分配多个异质对象的有效机制设计。我们的目标是最大化剩余盈余,即分配产生的总价值减去筛选代理人价值的成本。我们发现了一个稳健的趋势,表明随着商品种类的增加,无筛选机制(如具有外生优先顺序的序列独裁)往往表现得更好。我们在一个风格化的环境中分析了有效机制的特点,从而分析了其根本原因。我们还运用自动机制设计方法,以数字方式推导出有效机制,并验证了一般环境下的趋势。在此基础上,我们提出了登记-邀请-簿系统(RIB),将其作为一种有效的系统来安排预防大流行病的疫苗接种。
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Near-Optimal Mechanisms for Resource Allocation Without Monetary Transfers 无货币转移的资源分配近优机制
Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: arxiv-2408.10066
Moise Blanchard, Patrick Jaillet
We study the problem in which a central planner sequentially allocates asingle resource to multiple strategic agents using their utility reports ateach round, but without using any monetary transfers. We consider general agentutility distributions and two standard settings: a finite horizon $T$ and aninfinite horizon with $gamma$ discounts. We provide general tools tocharacterize the convergence rate between the optimal mechanism for the centralplanner and the first-best allocation if true agent utilities were available.This heavily depends on the utility distributions, yielding rates anywherebetween $1/sqrt T$ and $1/T$ for the finite-horizon setting, and rates fasterthan $sqrt{1-gamma}$, including exponential rates for the infinite-horizonsetting as agents are more patient $gammato 1$. On the algorithmic side, wedesign mechanisms based on the promised-utility framework to achieve theserates and leverage structure on the utility distributions. Intuitively, themore flexibility the central planner has to reward or penalize any agent whileincurring little social welfare cost, the faster the convergence rate. Inparticular, discrete utility distributions typically yield the slower rates$1/sqrt T$ and $sqrt{1-gamma}$, while smooth distributions with densitytypically yield faster rates $1/T$ (up to logarithmic factors) and $1-gamma$.
我们研究了这样一个问题:中央计划者利用多个战略代理人每轮的效用报告,按顺序将单一资源分配给他们,但不使用任何货币转移。我们考虑了一般代理效用分布和两种标准设置:有限视界 $T$ 和具有 $gamma$ 折扣的无限视界。我们提供了一般工具来描述在真实代理人效用可用的情况下,中央计划者的最优机制与第一最优分配之间的收敛速度。这在很大程度上取决于效用分布,在有限地平线设置下,收敛速度介于$1/sqrt T$和$1/T$之间,而在无限地平线设置下,收敛速度快于$sqrt{1-gamma}$,包括指数收敛速度,因为代理人更有耐心$gammato 1$。在算法方面,我们设计了基于承诺效用框架的机制,以实现效用和效用分布上的杠杆结构。直观地说,中央规划者奖励或惩罚任何代理人的灵活性越大,而产生的社会福利成本越小,收敛速度就越快。具体而言,离散效用分布通常会产生较慢的收敛率$1/sqrt T$和$sqrt{1-gamma}$,而具有密度的平滑分布通常会产生较快的收敛率$1/T$(达到对数因子)和$1-gamma$。
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Periodic Trading Activities in Financial Markets: Mean-field Liquidation Game with Major-Minor Players 金融市场中的周期性交易活动:有主要和次要参与者的平均场清算博弈
Pub Date : 2024-08-18 DOI: arxiv-2408.09505
Yufan Chen, Lan Wu, Renyuan Xu, Ruixun Zhang
Motivated by recent empirical findings on the periodic phenomenon ofaggregated market volumes in equity markets, we aim to understand the causesand consequences of periodic trading activities through a game-theoreticperspective, examining market interactions among different types ofparticipants. Specifically, we introduce a new mean-field liquidation gameinvolving major and minor traders, where the major trader evaluates herstrategy against a periodic targeting strategy while a continuum of minorplayers trade against her. We establish the existence and uniqueness of anopen-loop Nash equilibrium. In addition, we prove an O(1/sqrt N) approximationrate of the mean-field solution to the Nash equilibrium in a major-minor gamewith N minor players. In equilibrium, minor traders exhibit front-runningbehaviors in both the periodic and trend components of their strategies,reducing the major trader's profit. Such strategic interactions diminish thestrength of periodicity in both overall trading volume and asset prices. Ourmodel rationalizes observed periodic trading activities in the market andoffers new insights into market dynamics.
受近期关于股票市场成交量聚集的周期性现象的实证研究结果的启发,我们旨在通过博弈论的视角,研究不同类型参与者之间的市场互动,从而理解周期性交易活动的原因和后果。具体来说,我们引入了一种新的均值场清算博弈,涉及主要交易者和次要交易者,其中主要交易者根据周期性目标策略评估自己的策略,而一系列次要交易者则与其进行对立交易。我们证明了开环纳什均衡的存在性和唯一性。此外,我们还证明了在有 N 个次要参与者的主要-次要博弈中,纳什均衡的均场解的 O(1/sqrt N)近似率。在均衡状态下,次要交易者在其策略的周期和趋势部分都会表现出跑在前面的行为,从而减少主要交易者的利润。这种策略互动削弱了整体交易量和资产价格的周期性强度。我们的模型合理地解释了市场上观察到的周期性交易活动,并为市场动态提供了新的见解。
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Undominated monopoly regulation 无主导垄断监管
Pub Date : 2024-08-18 DOI: arxiv-2408.09473
Debasis Mishra, Sanket Patil
We study undominated mechanisms with transfers for regulating a monopolistwho privately observes the marginal cost of production. We show that in anyundominated mechanism, there is a quantity floor, which depends only on theprimitives, and the regulator's operation decision is stochastic only if themonopolist produces at the quantity floor. We provide a near-completecharacterization of the set of undominated mechanisms and use it to (a) providea foundation for deterministic mechanisms, (b) show that the efficientmechanism is dominated, and (c) derive a max-min optimal regulatory mechanism.
我们研究了对私下观察边际生产成本的垄断者进行监管的无支配机制。我们证明,在任何无支配机制中,都存在一个数量下限,它只取决于原语,只有当垄断者在数量下限进行生产时,监管者的操作决策才是随机的。我们对无支配机制的集合进行了近乎完整的描述,并利用它 (a) 为确定性机制提供了基础,(b) 证明了有效机制是被支配的,(c) 推导出了一个最大最小的最优监管机制。
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How to Make an Action Better 如何改进行动
Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI: arxiv-2408.09294
Marilyn Pease, Mark Whitmeyer
For two actions in a decision problem, a and b, each of which that produces astate-dependent monetary reward, we study how to robustly make action a moreattractive. Action a' improves upon a in this manner if the set of beliefs atwhich a is preferred to b is a subset of the set of beliefs at which a' ispreferred to b, irrespective of the risk-averse agent's utility function (inmoney). We provide a full characterization of this relation and discussapplications in bilateral trade and insurance.
对于决策问题中的两个行动(a 和 b),每个行动都会产生与具体情况相关的货币奖励,我们研究如何稳健地使行动 a 更有吸引力。如果 a 比 b 更受青睐的信念集合是 a' 比 b 更受青睐的信念集合的子集,而不管风险规避者的效用函数(以金钱为单位)如何,那么行动 a' 就会以这种方式改进 a。我们对这一关系进行了全面描述,并讨论了它在双边贸易和保险中的应用。
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Managing cascading disruptions through optimal liability assignment 通过优化责任分配管理连带干扰
Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: arxiv-2408.07361
Jens Gudmundsson, Jens Leth Hougaard, Jay Sethuraman
Interconnected agents such as firms in a supply chain make simultaneouspreparatory investments to increase chances of honouring their respectivebilateral agreements. Failures cascade: if one fails their agreement, then sodo all who follow in the chain. Thus, later agents' investments turn out to bepointless when there is an earlier failure. How losses are shared affects howagents invest to avoid the losses in the first place. In this way, a solutionsets agent liabilities depending on the point of disruption and induces asupermodular investment game. We characterize all efficient solutions. Thesehave the form that later agents -- who are not directly liable for thedisruption -- still shoulder some of the losses, justified on the premise thatthey might have failed anyway. Importantly, we find that such indirectliabilities are necessary to avoid unbounded inefficiencies. Finally, wepinpoint one efficient solution with several desirable properties.
相互关联的行为主体(如供应链中的企业)同时进行准备性投资,以增加履行各自双边协议的机会。失败会连带发生:如果其中一家公司未能履行协议,那么供应链上的所有后续公司也会失败。因此,当先前的失败发生时,后来者的投资就会变得毫无意义。如何分担损失会影响代理人如何投资以避免损失。这样,一个解决方案就会根据中断点来设定代理人的责任,并引发上模态投资博弈。我们描述了所有有效解决方案的特征。这些方案的形式是,后来的代理人--他们不直接对中断负责--仍然承担部分损失,前提是他们无论如何都可能失败。重要的是,我们发现这种间接责任对于避免无约束的低效率是必要的。最后,我们指出了一个具有若干理想特性的有效解决方案。
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The Dial-a-Ride Problem with Limited Pickups per Trip 每次接送次数有限的拨号乘车问题
Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: arxiv-2408.07602
Boshuai Zhao, Kai Wang, Wenchao Wei, Roel Leus
The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) is an optimization problem that involvesdetermining optimal routes and schedules for several vehicles to pick up anddeliver items at minimum cost. Motivated by real-world carpooling andcrowdshipping scenarios, we introduce an additional constraint imposing amaximum number on the number of pickups per trip. This results in theDial-a-Ride Problem with Limited Pickups per Trip (DARP-LPT). We apply afragment-based method for DARP-LPT, where a fragment is a partial path.Specifically, we extend two formulations from Rist & Forbes (2021): theFragment Flow Formulation (FFF) and the Fragment Assignment Formulation (FAF).We establish FFF's superiority over FAF, both from a theoretical as well asfrom a computational perspective. Furthermore, our results show that FFF andFAF significantly outperform traditional arc-based formulations in terms ofsolution quality and time. Additionally, compared to the two existing fragmentsets, one with longer partial paths and another with shorter ones, our newlygenerated fragment sets perform better in terms of solution quality and timewhen fed into FFF.
拨号乘车问题(DARP)是一个优化问题,它涉及为多辆汽车确定最佳路线和时间表,以便以最低成本取送物品。受现实世界中拼车和众包运输场景的启发,我们引入了一个额外的约束条件,对每次出行的取货次数施加最大限制。这就产生了每次行程取货次数有限的拨号乘车问题(DARP-LPT)。我们对 DARP-LPT 采用了基于片段的方法,其中片段是部分路径。具体来说,我们扩展了 Rist & Forbes(2021 年)的两个公式:片段流公式(FFF)和片段分配公式(FAF)。此外,我们的结果表明,FFF 和 FAF 在求解质量和时间方面明显优于传统的基于弧的公式。此外,与现有的两个片段集(一个具有较长的部分路径,另一个具有较短的部分路径)相比,我们新生成的片段集在输入 FFF 时的求解质量和时间方面表现更好。
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Identifying Restrictions on the Random Utility Model 确定随机效用模型的限制条件
Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: arxiv-2408.06547
Peter P. Caradonna, Christopher Turansick
We characterize those ex-ante restrictions on the random utility model whichlead to identification. We first identify a simple class of perturbations whichtransfer mass from a suitable pair of preferences to the pair formed byswapping certain compatible lower contour sets. We show that two distributionsover preferences are behaviorally equivalent if and only if they can beobtained from each other by a finite sequence of such transformations. Usingthis, we obtain specialized characterizations of which restrictions on thesupport of a random utility model yield identification, as well as of theextreme points of the set of distributions rationalizing a given data set.Finally, when a model depends smoothly on some set of parameters, we show thatunder mild topological assumptions, identification is characterized by astraightforward, local test.
我们描述了随机效用模型的事前限制,这些限制导致了识别。我们首先确定了一类简单的扰动,这些扰动将质量从一对合适的偏好转移到通过交换某些兼容的下轮廓集而形成的一对偏好上。我们证明,当且仅当两个偏好分布可以通过有限序列的此类变换相互获得时,它们在行为上是等价的。最后,当模型平稳地依赖于某些参数集时,我们证明在温和的拓扑假设下,识别可以通过直接的局部检验来描述。
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A Generalised $λ$-Core Concept for Normal Form Games 正则表达式博弈的广义 $λ$ 核心概念
Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: arxiv-2408.06086
Subhadip Chakrabarti, Robert P Gilles, Lina Mallozzi
In this note we develop a generalisation of the $lambda$-Core solution fornon-cooperative games in normal form. We show that this generalised$lambda$-Core is non-empty for the class of separable games that admit asocially optimal Nash equilibrium. Examples are provided that indicate thatnon-emptiness of the generalised $lambda$-Core cannot be expected for largeclasses of normal form games.
在这篇论文中,我们为正态非合作博弈提出了一种广义的$lambda$-Core解。我们证明,对于一类可分离博弈来说,这种广义的$lambda$-Core是非空的,因为这类博弈允许有一个最优纳什均衡。我们提供的例子表明,对于大量的正常形式博弈,广义$λ-Core的非空性是不可预期的。
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Dynamic choices, temporal invariance and variational discounting 动态选择、时间不变性和变式贴现
Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: arxiv-2408.05632
Bach Dong-Xuan, Philippe Bich
People often face trade-offs between costs and benefits occurring at variouspoints in time. The predominant discounting approach is to use the exponentialform. Central to this approach is the discount rate, a unique parameter thatconverts a future value into its present equivalent. However, a universallyaccepted discount rate remains a matter of ongoing debate and lacks consensus.This paper provides a robust solution for resolving conflicts in discountrates, which recommends considering all discount rates but aims to assignvarying degrees of importance to these rates. Moreover, a considerable numberof economists support a theory that suggests equal consideration of future andpresent utilities. In response to this debate, we introduce a general criterioncapable of accommodating situations where it is feasible not to discount futureutilities. This criterion encompasses and extends various existing criteria inthe literature.
人们经常要在不同时间点的成本和收益之间进行权衡。最主要的贴现方法是使用指数形式。这种方法的核心是贴现率,这是一个将未来值转换为现在值的独特参数。本文为解决贴现率方面的冲突提供了一个稳健的解决方案,建议考虑所有贴现率,但旨在赋予这些贴现率不同的重要程度。此外,相当多的经济学家支持一种建议平等考虑未来和现在效用的理论。针对这一争论,我们提出了一个通用标准,它能够适应不对未来效用进行贴现的情况。这一标准包含并扩展了文献中现有的各种标准。
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