On the Efficiency of All-Pay Mechanisms.

Sgouritsa, Alkmini, Tang, Bo and Christodoulou, Giorgos (2015) On the Efficiency of All-Pay Mechanisms. In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). Springer. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

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Abstract

We study the inefficiency of mixed equilibria, expressed as the price of anarchy, of all-pay auctions in three different environments: combinatorial, multi-unit and single-item auctions. First, we consider item-bidding combinatorial auctions where m all-pay auctions run in parallel, one for each good. For fractionally subadditive valuations, we strengthen the upper bound from 2 [22] to 1.82 by proving some struc- tural properties that characterize the mixed Nash equilibria of the game. Next, we design an all-pay mechanism with a randomized allocation rule for the multi-unit auction. We show that, for bidders with submodular valuations, the mechanism admits a unique, 75% efficient, pure Nash equilibrium. The efficiency of this mechanism outperforms all the known bounds on the price of anarchy of mechanisms used for multi-unit auc- tions. Finally, we analyze single-item all-pay auctions motivated by their connection to contests and show tight bounds on the price of anarchy of social welfare, revenue and maximum bid.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	## TULIP Type: Articles/Papers (Journal) ##
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2015 07:46
Last Modified:	31 Mar 2016 12:52
URI:	http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2014940

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