Showing posts with label intermediaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intermediaries. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2020

Reputation among thieves: ransomware and kidnapping

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Like everyone else, I occasionally get notifications of data breaches from organizations with which I have digital relations.  Often the bre...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Matchmaking nudges and noodges in the internet age

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The internet dating site JSwipe has a program called  ParentPay . The website has a banner reading (subtly) "We want grandchildren.&qu...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Equilibrium, mediation, and differential privacy

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Here's a paper that caught my eye... Robust Mediators in Large Games ∗ Michael Kearns, Mallesh M. Pai, Ryan Rogers,  Aaron Roth, and...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Assisted suicide legislation is clarified in Germany (family members won't be prosecuted, but professional assistance is forbidden)

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Timo Mennle writes  from Zurich: "the German parliament ("Bundestag") passed a new law concerning assisted suicide. The ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Competition by intermediaries can drive up prices:

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A paper by Ben Edelman and Julian Wright considers how intermediaries can compete with each other for buyers by offering bigger refunds tha...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Qatar, and the role of trusted intermediaries

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Trusted intermediaries receive some attention in game theory and market design, since there are things that can be accomplished with the ai...