时间

TIME

2023年2月20日（周一）

14 : 00 - 15 : 00

地点

VENUE

信管学院602室

主讲人

SPEAKER

Yixin Taois a Postdoctoral Researcher at London School of Economics, hosted byLászló Végh. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from New York University in 2020, where he was advised by Richard Cole. His main research area is algorithmic game theory. He is particularly interested in Fisher markets, fair division, and market dynamics.

主题

TITLE

Fisher markets and Fair Division

摘要

ABSTRACT

Allocating resources among agents in an efficient and fair manner is a classical problem which has been intensively studied in the areas of economics, social choice, and computer science. In this talk, I will present an overview of my work on this fair resource allocation problem.

I will focus on the fair resource allocation problem in the context of indivisible items, i.e., allocating parking spaces and tasks among employees, courses and dormitory rooms amongst college students, or jury and military duties among citizens. I will show the existence result of a mixed allocation that achieves both efficiency and fairness.

I will also mention Fisher markets, a special case of general equilibrium theory that can also provide efficient and fair allocations when the resources are divisible goods, i.e., splitting desserts between siblings, deciding international fishing rights. I will conclude the talk with a discussion on future directions and my other work in algorithmic game theory.