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We are pleased to continue our in person research seminar series hosted by the Centre for Mathematical Social Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, which we call "There will be donuts."
We are pleased to continue our in person research seminar series hosted by the Centre for Mathematical Social Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, which we call "There will be donuts."
The series has been running periodically since August 2022. For an archive of all presentations held since the series was launched, please visit the "Past Seminars" page.
The series has been running periodically since August 2022. For an archive of all presentations held since the series was launched, please visit the "Past Seminars" page.
If you want to talk about theory (your own, or an interesting paper from the literature) or even give a mini-course on some area of theory you want to tell us about, then please sign up! We encourage informality, brainstorming of potential research ideas, and general enthusiasm for all things theoretical. Book your slot by emailing one of the organisers. If you want to learn some theory, then please come along. Students are particularly welcome (in the audience and on stage). And of course, donuts will be provided! Hope to see you at the seminars!
If you want to talk about theory (your own, or an interesting paper from the literature) or even give a mini-course on some area of theory you want to tell us about, then please sign up! We encourage informality, brainstorming of potential research ideas, and general enthusiasm for all things theoretical. Book your slot by emailing one of the organisers. If you want to learn some theory, then please come along. Students are particularly welcome (in the audience and on stage). And of course, donuts will be provided! Hope to see you at the seminars!
Best,
Best,
The Organisers: Simona Fabrizi (s.fabrizi@auckland.ac.nz), Steffen Lippert (s.lippert@auckland.ac.nz) and Matthew Ryan (mryan@aut.ac.nz)
The Organisers: Simona Fabrizi (s.fabrizi@auckland.ac.nz), Steffen Lippert (s.lippert@auckland.ac.nz) and Matthew Ryan (mryan@aut.ac.nz)
Time and place: Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 3:15pm-4:15pm, room 260-6115
Speaker: Binyamin Oz [ISOM, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland]
Title: The social benefit of priority service
Abstracts: In most cases, society is indifferent to the specific order in which homogeneous customers are served in a queue. Hence, it is only the server who may benefit from selling priority service, and the revenue from such activity comes at the expense of reduced consumer surplus. In this work, we show that when strategic customers are faced with an additional decision, on top of whether to pay for priority service, selling priority service by revenue-maximizing servers may not only improve social welfare but even maximize it in some cases. We exemplify this principle by studying two models. In the first, a monopolistic server charges for priority while customers decide whether to join the queue, and if they do, whether to pay for priority. In the second, multiple revenue-maximizing servers compete on the priority service price, while customers decide which queue to join and whether to pay for priority at the queue they join.
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