Concurrent auctions across the supply chain

Moshe Babaioff*, Noam Nisan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the recent technological feasibility of electronic commerce over the Internet, much attention has been given to the design of electronic markets for various types of electronically-tradable goods. Such markets, however, will normally need to function in some relationship with markets for other related goods, usually those downstream or upstream in the supply chain. Thus, for example, an electronic market for rubber tires for trucks, will likely need to be strongly influenced by the rubber market as well as by the truck market. In this paper we design protocols for exchange of information between a sequence of markets along a single supply chain. These protocols allow each of these markets to function separately, while the information exchanged guarantees efficient global behavior across the supply chain. Each market form a link in the supply chain operates as a double auction, where the bids on one side of the double auction come from bidders in the corresponding segment of the industry, and the bids on the other side are synthetically generated by the protocol to express the combined information from all other links in the chain. The double auctions in each of the markets can be of several types, and we study several variants of incentive compatible double auctions, comparing them in terms of their efficiency and of the market revenue.

Original languageEnglish
Pages1-10
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
EventEC'01: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce - Tampa, FL, United States
Duration: 14 Oct 200117 Oct 2001

Conference

ConferenceEC'01: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTampa, FL
Period14/10/0117/10/01

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