Research
We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online marketplaces for long-lived agents with persistent preferences. Bidder dashboards, which forecast outcomes as a function of bid, help bidders optimize their bids. The principal in such…
Owned by nobody and controlled by an almost immutable protocol, the Bitcoin payment system is a platform with two main constituencies: users and profit-seeking miners who maintain the system’s infrastructure. The paper seeks to understand…
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and…
As market design theory increasingly shapes the design and operations of real-life marketplaces, it is important for designers to provide simple policy levers that practitioners can use to optimize platform objectives. In the school choice…
Many theorems in economics can be proven (and hypotheses shown to be false) with available decision algorithms. This paper assembles a few dozen classic examples from economic theory that demonstrate why CAD-based algorithms are practical,…
