Moshe Babaioff

🚨 EC'26 website is now live! 🚨

Deadline for abstracts 2 Feb & for papers 9 Feb ⏱️ 1st round decisions 26 March 😥 Rebuttal period 21-25 April 🙅 Decisions by 18 May 🎯 Conference 6-10 July in Rome 🍕🇮🇹🍝.

Instead of tracks, there are 13 amazing track chairs!
ec26.sigecom.org/index.html

That is great!

On Truthful Mechanisms without Pareto-efficiency: Characterizations and Fairness We consider the problem of allocating heterogeneous and indivisible goods among strategic agents, with preferences over subsets of goods, when there is no medium of exchange. This model captures the w...

The limits of truthful mechanism for allocation (without Money):
On Truthful Mechanisms without Pareto-efficiency: Characterizations and Fairness,
By Moshe Babaioff and Noam Manaker Morag,
arxiv.org/abs/2411.11131
Taking place at the Wednesday session on Market Design (F), 10:30 (LANDAU 140)

On the Efficiency of Fair and Truthful Trade Mechanisms We consider the impact of fairness requirements on the social efficiency of truthful mechanisms for trade, focusing on Bayesian bilateral-trade settings. Unlike the full information case in which all ...

EC is here! Check out two fairness talks (in non-fairness sessions) by Noam.

Fairness of trade mechanisms (Bilateral Trade):
On the Efficiency of Fair and Truthful Trade Mechanisms,
by Moshe Babaioff, Yiding Feng and Noam Manaker Morag
Tuesday's session on Mechanism Design (A), 13:30 (FISHER A)

Check out the terrific set of EC 2025 accepted papers! ec25.sigecom.org/program/acce...

EC 2024 Tutorials - YouTube Tutorials from the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'24), New Haven, CT, June 25–27, 2020.

I'm so happy the excellent EC tutorials are available online:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thanks Laura Doval for taking the lead on this (also thanks @yannaigonch.bsky.social and whoever was involved from @acmsigecom.bsky.social).

Registration: SIGecom Winter Meeting 2025 March 6, 2025 on Virtual Chair.

Trying to imagine life post-EC-deadline? Mark your calendar for the fifth annual SIGecom Winter Meeting! March 6, 11am-5pm ET, focused on the interplay of Market Design and Generative AI!
Registration is free but required, sign-up below!

In a class about GenAI and new technologies, it was mention that Kodak did not jump on the digital camera technology and became obslelete. None of the students have heard about Kodak...

Hello Kira!