Research Interests:
§ Computational economics. Electronic commerce. Mechanism design. Microeconomics theory and game theory.
Teaching:
Current:
§ Auction
Design (graduate,
2010/11)
§ Internet Economics (2009/10,2010/11).
o The theoretical
foundations of prominent Internet-based institutions. Covering auction and
electronic market design, online advertising, social networks,
recommendation systems, information markets and more.
§ Price theory II (undergrad microeconomics, Spring
2010, Spring 2011).
Past:
§ Game Theory. Special program in
Economics, Philosophy and Political Science.
Instructor. The Hebrew
University (Spring, 2006).
§ Foundations of Electronic Commerce.
Co-Instructor. IDC, Herzlia
(Spring, 2005).
§ Internet
Entrepreneurship Course (TA) .
§ Theory
of computation (TA).
§
Programming Laboratory course(TA).
Papers:
Book chapters and journals:
§ Mechanism Design with a Restricted Action
Space, by Liad
Blumrosen and Michal Feldman. Accepted (under minor revision) to Games
and Economic Behavior.
o
[pdf]
§
The Communication
Burden of Price Determination, by Moshe Babaioff,
Liad Blumrosen and Michael
Schapira (2008). Accepted (under
minor revision) to Games and Economic Behavior (GEB).
o
[pdf]
§ Informational Limitations of Ascending
Combinatorial Auctions,
by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan. Journal of Economic Theory,
145(3), 1203-1223 (2010).
o
[pdf]
§
On the
Computational Power of Demand Queries, by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan. Siam Journal on
Computing (SICOMP), 39(4), 1372-1391 (2009).
o
[pdf]
§ Combinatorial Auctions, by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan.
Chapter 11 in the book "Algorithmic Game Theory".
Editors: Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos and Vijay Vazirani.
Cambridge University Press, 2007, to appear.
o
[pdf]
§ Welfare Maximization in Congestion Games, by Liad Blumrosen and Shahar Dobzinski.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special
issue: Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking. 25(6):1224-1236.
o
[pdf]
§ Computationally-Feasible Truthful Auctions
for Convex Bundles,
by Moshe Babaioff
and Liad Blumrosen.
Games and Economic Behavior (GEB), 63(2): 588-620 (2008).
o
[pdf]
§ Auctions with Severely Bounded
Communication, by Liad Blumrosen,
Noam Nisan and Ilya Segal. Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 28:233-266.
o
[pdf]
Working papers:
§ Conversion Rates in Sponsored Search
Auctions, by Liad
Blumrosen, Jason
Hartline and Shuzhen Nong (2007).
A preliminary version appeared in the 4th workshop on ad
auctions (2008).
§ Posted Prices vs. Negotiations:
An Asymptotic Analysis, by Liad
Blumrosen and Thomas Holenstein. A revision of a paper presented at EC’08.
o
[pdf] + [supplementary materials].
Conference papers:
§ Only Valuable Experts Can be Valued, by Moshe Babaioff,
Liad Blumrosen, Nicolas S. Lambert and Omer Reingold.
The 12th
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 11).
§ Posting Prices with Unknown Distributions,
by Moshe
Babaioff, Liad Blumrosen, Shaddin
Dughmi and Yaron Singer.
Innovations in Computer Science (ICS 2011)
§ Auctions with Online Supply, by Moshe Babaioff,
Liad Blumrosen and Aaron Roth
(2010). The 11th
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 10).
Presented in the 5th workshop on ad auction, Stanford 2009.
o
[pdf]
§ Informational Overhead of Incentive
Compatibility, by Moshe
Babaioff, Liad Blumrosen, Moni Naor and Michael Schapira.
The 9th ACM
Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’08).
o
[pdf]
§ Posted prices vs. Negotiation: an
asymptotic analysis,
by Liad Blumrosen and Thomas
Holenstein (2007).
The 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’08).
o [pdf]
§ Implementing the Maximum of Monotone
Algorithms, by Liad
Blumrosen.
The 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'07).
Short paper appeared in (AAMAS'07).
o
[pdf]
§ Implementation with a Bounded Action Space, by Liad Blumrosen and Michal Feldman.
The 7th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06).
o
Proceeding version [pdf]
o
Full version [pdf]
§ Welfare Maximization in Congestion Games, by Liad Blumrosen and Shahar Dobzinski.
The 7th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06).
o
[pdf]
§ On the Computational Power of Iterative
Auctions I: Demand Queries, by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan.
The sixth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05).
o
An extended abstract contained parts I and II (both were
accepted). [pdf]
o
Full paper (discussion paper no. 381, center of rationality,
The Hebrew University): [pdf]
§ On the Computational Power of Iterative
Auctions II: Ascending Auctions, by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan.
The sixth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05)
o
Full paper (discussion paper no. 382, center of rationality,
The Hebrew University): [pdf]
§ Computationally Feasible Auctions for
Convex Bundles, by Moshe Babaioff and
Liad Blumrosen.
The 7th. International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for
Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX+RANDOM'04).
o
[pdf]
§ Multi-Player and Multi-Round Auctions with
Severely Bounded Communication, by Liad Blumrosen, Noam Nisan and Ilya Segal.
The 11th Annual
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA'03)
o
[pdf]
§ Auctions with Severely Bounded
Communication,
by Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan.
The 43th Annual
Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'02)
o
Conference version [pdf]
§ On-line Markets For Distributed Object
Services: The MAJIC system, by Lior Levi, Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan.
The 3rd USENIX
Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'01)
o
Proceeding version [pdf], Full version [pdf]
§ Bringing 3d To Teleradiology, by Nigel W. John, Mark Riding, Ari
Sadarjoen and Liad Blumrosen.
IEEE international
Conference on Information Visualization (IV'00)
o
[pdf]
Thesis:
§
"Information
and Communication in Mechanism Design”
Liad Blumrosen, PhD thesis, The
Hebrew University, 2006.
Committee: Noam Nisan
(advisor), Daniel Lehmann
and Motty
Perry.
o
[pdf]
Academic
service:
§
Conference program
committees: Ad-auctions
’11, EC’11, Ad-Auctions ’10, AAMAS’10, EC’09, IJCAI’09, EC’08,
AAAI’09, AAMAS’08.
§
Journal refereeing: American
Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior,
Theoretical Economics. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Artificial Intelligence. Operations Research. Journal of Machine Learning
Research, Algorithmica (and others)
§
Tutorial
at ACM EC’08, joint with
Ilya Segal on “Communication Requirements of Economic Mechanisms”.
Education and
employment:
§ Senior lecturer, Department
of Economics, The Hebrew University. (2009-present)
§ Post-doc researcher, Microsoft
Research, Silicon Valley. (2006-2009)
§ PhD (Computer Science) The
Hebrew University. (2006)
o
Advisor: Noam
Nisan. Title:”Information and
Communication in Mechanism Design”.
§ B.Sc. in Computer Science, Economics and “Amirim” special honors program in natural sciences. (The Hebrew University, 2000)
Contact
information:
Liad Blumrosen
Department of
Economics
The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem,
91905
Israel
Email: <
last-name>@huji.ac.il
Room: 5205 (Mt. Scopus), phone: 02-5883125
Office hours: Mondays 14:30-15:30 (please send an email before
coming)
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