This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2021, which was held online during December 14-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Potsdam, Germany, but changed to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 41 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: mechanism design and pricing; matching, markets and equilibria; learning, fairness, privacy and behavioral models; social choice and cryptocurrencies.
Mechanism Design and Pricing.- Two-way Greedy: Algorithms for Imperfect Rationality.- Bayesian Persuasion in Sequential Trials.- The Optimality of Upgrade Pricing.- On Symmetries in Multi-Dimensional Mechanism Design.- Welfare-Preserving $nvarepsilon$-BIC to BIC Transformation with Negligible Revenue Loss.- Strategyproof Facility Location in Perturbation Stable Instances.- Contract Design for A orestation Programs.- Relaxing the independence assumption in sequential posted pricing, prophet inequality, and random bipartite matching.- Allocating Indivisible Goods to Strategic Agents: Pure Nash Equilibria and Fairness.- On the benefits of being constrained when receiving signals.- Towards a Characterization of Worst Case Equilibria in the Discriminatory Price Auction.- Matching, Markets and Equilibria.- Improved Analysis of RANKING for Online Vertex-Weighted Bipartite Matching in the Random Order Model.- Beyond Pigouvian Taxes: A Worst Case Analysis.- The core of housing markets from an agent's perspective: Is it worth sprucing up your home.- Mechanisms for Trading Durable Goods.- Formal Barriers to Simple Algorithms for the Matroid Secretary Problem.- Threshold Tests as Quality Signals: Optimal Strategies, Equilibria, and Price of Anarchy.- The Platform Design Problem.- A Consumer-Theoretic Characterization of Fisher Market Equilibria.- Learning, Fairness, Privacy and Behavioral Models A tight negative example for MMS fair allocations.- Approximating Nash Social Welfare Under Binary XOS and Binary Subadditive Valuations.- Default Ambiguity: Finding the Best Solution to the Clearing Problem.- Planning on an Empty Stomach: On Agents with Projection Bias.- Eliciting Social Knowledge for Creditworthiness Assessment.- Social Choice and Cryptocurrencies.- Decentralized Asset Custody Scheme with Security against Rational Adversary.- The Distortion of Distributed Metric Social Choice.- Maximal Information Propagation via Lotteries.- Envy-free division of multi-layered cakes.- Computing envy-freeable allocations with limited subsidies.
