As a way to mitigate the impact of intrusive online advertising on users, ad-blockers have risen in prominence over the past few years. Initially dismissed by the online advertising industry as inconsequential, ad-blockers have evolved from a mere plugin tool on browsers to full-fledged...

This paper is a short introduction to the essentials in Mathematics for Economic modeling. Analytical modeling frequently uses key mathematical tools and this work is an attempt at summarizing and giving intuitions regarding these basic concepts

Combinatorial auctions are increasingly being used to allocate bundles of items among interested bidders. However, as the number of bundles increases, it takes exponentially longer to solve for the winners in the auction. In such situations, regular solvers such as IBM CPLEX or AMPL fail to...

Ad fraud is increasingly becoming a major concern in online advertising, with publishers being one of the key sources of fraudulent ad traffic. Although ad fraud deterrence is a critical problem from both technical and economic perspectives, past research has not considered their interplay. Our...

Does it pay to appear unbiased in an attention-based economy where bias sells? We consider this question in a context with growing consumer polarization and partisan and neutral online news providers. We provide a game-theoretic framework that captures many essential properties of the online...

This paper proposes relative and absolute measures of deprivation using social satisfaction functions. The relative (absolute) measure gives us the amount by which social satisfaction can be increased in proportional (absolute) terms by redistributing incomes equally. We also demonstrate the...