Project

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Project

• By group (1-4 students, formed on your own)
• Each group
• select 1 topic
• hand in 1 report (page limit 5 pages due July
  10)
• give 1 presentation (July 6)

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Research Report and Presentation

• The report should follow the following structure
• title
• group members
• brief background
• details
• brief conclusion
• references
• Important You are free to check from any sources
  (say, Internet, books, research papers), but you
  (each group) have to write the report completely
  with your own language and must include all
  references.

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Suggested Topics

• P2P social lending (e.g., Zopa, Prosper)
• Spectrum auctions (e.g., FCC auctions in the US)
• Crowdsourcing (e.g., Amazons mechanical turk)
• Online auctions (e.g., eBay)
• Online coupon
• Sponsored search auction (e.g., Google, Yahoo)
• Voting system (e.g., Single transferable vote
  voting in Australia)
• Prediction market
• Stackelberg games for airport security
• Recommendation system
• Real life phenomenon of inefficiency of Nash
  equilibirum
• Others

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Focus

• Feel free to choose any focus(es) you are
  interested in
• theoretical analysis
• application
• business model
• solution concept
• etc.

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