Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. English and Vickrey Auctions -- Chapter Two. From Vickrey to eBay -- Chapter Three. eBay Strategies Observed -- Chapter Four. What If eBay Were First-Price? -- Chapter Five. The Signals that Sellers Send -- Chapter Six....

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...