We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
We study the information content of equilibrium prices using the market communication model of Deng, Papadimitriou, and Safra [4]. We show that, in the worst case, communicating an...
In pricing-based congestion control protocols it is common to assume that the rate of congestion feedback from the network is limited to a single bit per packet. To obtain a preci...
Jonathan K. Shapiro, C. V. Hollot, Donald F. Towsl...
In classical revealed preference analysis we are given a sequence of linear prices (i.e., additive over goods) and an agent's demand at each of the prices. The problem is to d...
We extend Goldberg’s multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) with a suite of protocols for privacypreserving e-commerce. Our first protocol adds ...