Economics
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Microsoft and intelligent markets at ACM EC’17
By David Pennock, Principal Researcher and Assistant Managing Director The 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’17) starts today at MIT in Cambridge, MA, featuring some of the latest research findings at the interdisciplinary…
Microsoft Research @ ACM EC’17
The Eighteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC’17) will be held at MIT in Cambridge, MA, June 26-30, 2017. Microsoft scientists co-authored 21% of the accepted papers, or 16 out of 75. The…
Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators
Network pricing games provide a framework for modeling real-world settings with two types of strategic agents: users of the network and owners (operators) of the network. Owners of the network post a price for usage…
The Making of Project Sangam
Microsoft Research India started project MEC to understand the adoption of quality educational content in India and how technology can help uplift this adoption rate. The platform saw great adoption in India, Middle East, and…
