Publications [#343206] of Vincent Conitzer

Journal articles or Book chapters PUBLISHED

1. Guo, M; Conitzer, V, False-name-proofness with Bid Withdrawal, vol. abs/1208.6501 (August, 2012)
   (last updated on 2024/07/31)

   Abstract:
   We study a more powerful variant of false-name manipulation in Internet auctions: an agent can submit multiple false-name bids, but then, once the allocation and payments have been decided, withdraw some of her false-name identities (have some of her false-name identities refuse to pay). While these withdrawn identities will not obtain the items they won, their initial presence may have been beneficial to the agent's other identities. We define a mechanism to be false-name-proof with withdrawal (FNPW) if the aforementioned manipulation is never beneficial. FNPW is a stronger condition than false-name-proofness (FNP).