S. Matthew Weinberg

Credible, Truthful, and Two-Round (Optimal) Auctions via Cryptographic Commitments

2020 · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

We consider the sale of a single item to multiple buyers by a revenue-maximizing seller. Recent work of Akbarpour and Li formalizes \emph{credibility} as an auction desideratum, and prove that the only optimal, credible, strategyproof …