Dynamic Price Sequence and Incentive Compatibility (Extended Abstract)

We introduce and study a new auction model in which a certain type of goods is offered over a period of time, and buyers arrive at different times and stay until a common deadline (unless their purchase requests have been fulfilled). We examine in this model incentive compatible auction protocols (i.e., those that induce participants to bid their true valuations).

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