Under Review

1. The Limits of Price Discrimination Under Privacy Constraints, With Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi, 2024

2. On Three-Layer Data Markets, with Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, and Ali Makhdoumi,  2024

3. How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy, With Daron Acemoglu, Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Asuman Ozdaglar

4. Bridging Central and Local Differential Privacy in Data Acquisition Mechanisms, With A. Fallah, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Major Revision, Management Science, 2024.

5. Revenue Maximization Under Unknown Private Values With Non-Obligatory Inspection With Saeed Alaei and Ali Makhdoumi, Minor Revision, Operations Research, 2024

6. Strategic Dynamic Pricing with Network Externalities, with A. Makhdoumi and A. Ozdaglar, Under Revision, Management Science, 2020.

Working Paper:

1. Descending Price Auctions with Bounded Number of Price Levels and Batched Prophet Inequality with S. Alaei, A. Makhdoumi, R. Niazadeh

2. Countering Value Uncertainty via Refunds: a Mechanism Design Approach, With Saeed Alaei, Shuchi Chawla, Ali Makhdoumi, 2023

Journal Papers

1. When Big Data Enables Behavioral Manipulation, With Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asuman Ozdaglar, Accepted, American Economic Review: Insights, 2024

2. Optimal Auction Design with Deferred Inspection and Reward, with S. Alaei, A. Belloni, and A. Makhdoumi, Accepted, Operations Research, 2024.

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3. Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms, with A. Fallah, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Accepted, Operations Research, 2023.

4. Optimal subscription Planning for Digital Goods, with S. Alaei, and A. Makhdoumi, Accepted, Operations Research, 2023.

5. Learning From Reviews: The Selection Effect and the Speed of Learning, with D. Acemoglu, A Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar,  Accepted, Econometrica, 2022.

6. Technical Note: Revenue Volatility under Uncertain Network Effects, with O. Baron, and M. Hu, Accepted, Operations Research, 2022.

7. Revenue-Sharing Allocation Strategies for Two-Sided Media Platforms: Pro-Rata versus User-Centric, with S. Alaei, A. Makhdoumi, and S. Pekec, Forthcoming, Management Science, 2021.

8. Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing and the Spread of an Infection, with D. Acemoglu, A Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Forthcoming, Operations Research,  2021. 

9. A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding, with S. Alaei, and M. Mostagir, Forthcoming, Operations Research, 2021, 

10. Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets, with D. Acemoglu, A Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021. 

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    • cited in the 2023 Economic Report of the President

11. Maximizing Sequence-Submodular Functions and its Application to Online Advertising, with Ali Makhdoumi, and Saeed Alaei, Management Science, 2021.

12. Efficient Computation of Optimal Auctions via Reduced-forms, with S. Alaei, H. Fu, N. Haghpanah, and J. Hartline, Mathematics of Operations Research, 44(3), 2019, pp. 1058-1086.

13. Informational Braess’ Paradox: The Effect of Information on Traffic Congestion , with D. Acemoglu, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Operations Research, 66 (4), 2018, pp. 893-917.

14. Privacy-Constrained Network Formation, with D. Acemoglu, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Games and Economics Behavior,105(2017), pp. 255–275.

15. Network Security and Contagion, D. Acemoglu, A. Malekian, A. Ozdaglar. Journal of Economic Theory, 166, 536-585, 2016.

    • Media coverage: http://www.techpolicy.com/Blog/June-2013/How-the-Economics-of-Network-Security-Works.aspx

16. Competitive Equilibrium in Two Sided Matching Markets with General Utility Functions, S. Alaei, K. Jain, A. Malekian.  Operations Research, 64 (3), 638-645, 2016.

17. Bayesian Incentive Compatibility via Matchings, J. Hartline, R. Kleinberg, A. Malekian.  Games and Economics Behavior, 92, 401-429,2016.

18. On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods, S. Alaei, A. Malekian, A. Srinivasan. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, Volume 2 Issue 3, July 2014, Article No. 11.

19. Improved Algorithms for Data Migration Y. Kim, S. Khuller, A. Malekian.  Algorithmica 63 (1-2), 347-362.

20. Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks, A. deshpande, S. Khuller, A. Malekian, M. Toossi.  Algorithmica 59 (1), 94-114,2011.

21. To Fill or Not to Fill: The Gas Station Problem S. Khuller, A. Malekian, J. Mestre. ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) 7 (3), 36, 2011.

Refereed Conference Papers:

1. How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy, With Daron Acemoglu, Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Asuman Ozdaglar, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2023 (extended abstract)

2. Bridging Central and Local Differential Privacy in Data Acquisition Mechanisms, With A. Fallah, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, accepted at NeurIPS, 2022

3.  Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms, with A. Fallah, A. Makhdoumi, and A. Ozdaglar, Accepted at EC 2022

4. Descending Price Auctions with Bounded Number of Price Levels and Batched Prophet Inequality

with S. Alaei, A. Makhdoumi, R. Niazadeh Accepted at EC 2022

5. Revenue Maximization Under Unknown Private Values With Non-Obligatory Inspection With Saeed Alaei and Ali Makhdoumi, Accepted at EC, 2021 (with title Revenue Maximizing Pandora Problem)

6. A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding, with S. Alaei, and M. Mostagir, "ACM conference on Economics and Computation(EC), 2016.

7. Competitive Equilibrium in Electricity Markets with Heterogeneous Users and Price Fluctuation Penalty, with A. Ozdaglar, E. Wei. “Conference on Decision and Control”(CDC), 2014.  

8. Competitive Equilibrium in Electricity Markets with Heterogeneous Users and Ramping Constraints, with A. Ozdaglar, E. Wei. Invited paper to “Allerton Conference”, 2013

9. Bayesian Optimal Auctions via Multi- to Single-agent Reduction, Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline, Azarakhsh Malekian, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC 2012

10.  Bayesian Mechanism Design for Budget-Constrained Agents, Shuchi Chawla, David Malec, Azarakhsh Malekian, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC, 2011.

11.  Baysian Algorithmic Mechanism Design: Multi Dimensional Setting, Jason Hartline, Robert Kleinberg, Azarakhsh Malekian, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA, 2011.

12.  A Novel Approach for Propagating Distrust, Christian Borges, Jennifer Chayes, Adam Kalai, Azarakhsh Malekian, Moshe Tennenholtz, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE, 2010.

13. Balanced Allocation with Succinct Representation ,  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Ravi Kumar, Erik Vee, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD, 2010.

14. An analysis of Troubled Assets Reverse Auction, Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics , WINE, 2009, Italy, Best Student Paper Award.

15. Online Allocation of Display Advertisements subject to Advanced Sales Contracts, Saeed Alaei, Esteban Arcaute, Samir Khuller, Wenjing Ma, Azarakhsh Malekian and John A. Tomlin, International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD), Paris, France, 2009.

16. On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods,  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasan, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC, 2009.

17. Query Rewrites for Keyword-based Advertising, Chi Chao Chang, Ravi Kumar, Azarakhsh Malekian, Grant Wang, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2008.

18. Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks, Amol Deshpande, Samir Khuller, Azarakhsh Malekian, Mohammad Toossi, Latin American Theoretical Informatics(LATIN), Brazil, April 2008.

19. To Fill or not to Fill: The Gas Station Problem,  Samir Khuller, Azarakhsh Malekian, Julian Mestre:, European Symp. on Algorithms (ESA), Israel, October 2007.

20. Improved Algorithms for Data Migration, Samir Khuller, Yoo Ah Kim, Azarakhsh Malekian, Workshop on Approximation Algorithms (APPROX), Spain, August 2006.