Reading List

• Week 1         :    'On the incentive to deviate in Core selecting combinatorial auctions' (Vineet Abhishek, Bruce Hajek)
  Presenter     :    Thirumula Nathan
  Date            :    July 5, 2013
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  Notes by Thirumula Nathan
• Week 2         :    'Truthful Mechanism for One Parameter Agents' (Aaron Archer and Eva Tardos. IEEE FOCS '01)
  Presenter     :    Debmalya Mandal
  Date            :    July 12, 2013
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Target Papers for Discussion

• 'Algorithmic mechanism design' ( Nisan and Ronen ) PDF
• 'How bad is selfish routing?' ( Roughgarden and Tardos ) PDF
• 'Optimal Auction Design' ( Myerson ) PDF
• 'Simple Economics of Optimal Auction' ( Bulow and Roberts ) PDF
• 'Dynamic Pivot Mechanism' ( Bergemann and Valimaki ) PDF