Operations Research 2025
Abstract Submission

141. Investment Guarantees for Inner Approximations

Invited abstract in session TA-2: Combinatorial Optimization, stream Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.

Thursday, 8:45-10:15
Room: H4

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Sven de Vries
FB IV - Mathematik, Uni Trier
2. Stephen Raach
Trier University
3. Rakesh V. Vohra
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

Akbarpour, Kominers, Li, Li, and Milgrom [2023] provided a characterization
for when an incentive-compatible approximate mechanism’s worst-case allocative
and investment guarantees coincide. The characterization, however, fails in some
natural settings, such as multi-unit demand with linear utilities. In this case we pro-
pose an inner approximation framework that yields an incentive-compatible greedy
mechanism whose allocative and investment guarantees coincide.

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Status: accepted


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