Birgit, Heydenreich; Debasis, Mishra; Rudolf, Müller; … - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2008
We study the design of optimal mechanisms in a setting where job-agents compete for being processed by a service provider that can handle one job at a time. Each job has a processing time and incurs a waiting cost. Jobs need to be compensated for waiting. We consider two models, one where only...