Ali Kakhbod, PhD, MIT.
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Advising the Management 
(with U. Loginova, A. Malenko, N. Malenko)

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​Keywords: Advisory voting, Advisory board, Incentive


Information Disclosure in Dynamic OTC Markets 
(with F. Song)

​Keywords: Restless (Markovian) fundamental,  Market liquidity, Welfare, Dealer-based OTC market,
​bid-ask spread



Optimal Contracting in Networks
(with A. Jadbabaei)


Keywords: Optimal contracting, Incomplete information, Network externality, Financial networks
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A Theory of Two-Dimensional Communication: Welfare and Corporate governance 
(with U. Loginova)

​Keywords: Information choice, Corporate governance, Shareholder value


​Information Choice and Amplification of Financial Crises   
Review of Financial Studies 
vol 30, no. 6, 2017 
(with T. Ahnert)

Keywords: Financial crises, Information panics, Costly information acquisition, Global games


Dynamic Pricing in Social Networks: The Word of Mouth Effect 
Management Science
vol 64, no. 2, 2017 (with A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaei)

​Keywords: COASE Conjecture, Price fluctuations, Zero pricing, Information diffusion


Competition in Electricity Markets with Renewable Energy Sources
The Energy Journal  (invited) 

​vol 38, no. SI1, 2017 (with Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar)

​Keywords: Renewable energy,  Merit order effect hypothesis,  Price volatility & geographic proximity, Forward contract with incomplete and correlated information, Energy finance 

- A preliminary version of this paper was accepted for presentation in 
  52nd
 Annual Allerton Conference, UIUC (Allerton'14).



Pay To Bid Auctions: To bid or not to bid.
Operation Research Letters (ORL)
​vol 41, no 5, 2013.

[Extended version with re-entry effects]
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Keywords:  Dynamic Auction, Pay to bid auctions, Risk loving bidders, Entry and re-entry effect


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Book:  Resource Allocation in Decentralized Systems with Strategic Agents: 
An Implementation Theory Approach 
- Springer Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, 2014.
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- Winner of the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize
​  for Distinguished Academic Achievement, 2013. 


Keywords: Full Nash Implementation, Contract, Wallrasian equilibrium, Lindahl equilibrium, Budget balance on and off equilibrium, Individual rationality, Complex Networks, Mechanism-Market design


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Book Chapter:   Power Allocation, Spectrum Sharing, and Revenue Maximization 
in Networks: An Implementation Theory Approach
 
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Ch. 5 in In Mechanisms and Games for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation. 
Editors: T. Alpcan, H. Boche, M. Honig, H. Vincent Poor 
Cambridge University Press, 2014. 
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(with  A. Nayyar, S. Sharma and D. Teneketzis)

Keywords: Full Nash Implementation, Auction, Contract, Complex Networks,
Mechanism-Market design



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Tight Bounds On the Redundancy of Huffman codes  

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IT)  
vol. 58, no. 11, 2012. (with S. Mohajer, P. Pakzad)


Keywords: A proof to the YE & YEUNG Conjecture with extensions, Huffman coding,
​Information (Shannon) theory, Probability theory




An Efficient Game Form for Unicast Service Provisioning
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)
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vol.  57, no. 2,  2012. (with D. Teneketzis) 

- A preliminary version of this paper was accepted for presentation in 
  
47th Annual Allerton Conference, UIUC, (Allerton'09).


Keywords: Full Nash Implementation, Market mechanisms, Wallrasian equilibrium, Complex Networks,
Mechanism-Market design



Power Allocation and Spectrum Sharing in Multiuser Multichannel Systems with Strategic Users 
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) 
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vol. 57, no. 9, 2012. (with D. Teneketzis)

- A preliminary version of this paper was accepted for presentation in 
  
49th Conference on Decision and Control, (CDC2010).


Keywords: Full Nash Implementation, Public good mechanisms, Lindahl equilibrium, Budget balance on and off equilibrium, Individual rationality, Contract
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On Describing the Routing Capacity Regions of Networks 
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (MMOR)
vol. 72, no. 1, 2012. (S. M. S. Yazdi)


Keywords: Complexity theory, Probabilistic methods, Fourier–Motzkin elimination, Farkas lemma, Japanese theorem


Book Chapter:  On the Routing Capacity Regions of Networks  
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iConcept press 2012. (S. M. S. Yazdi)

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Keywords: Discrete optimization, Farkas lemma, Japanese theorem, Complexity theory, Probabilistic methods, Network capacity


An Efficient Game Form for Multirate Multicast Service Provisioning
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
Lead article in the Special issue on "Network Economics" 
​vol. 30, no. 11, 2012. (with D. Teneketzis) 


Keywords: Nash Implementation, Public good/Market mechanisms, Lindahl/Wallrasian equilibrium, Budget balance on and off equilibrium, Individual rationality, Contract


On the construction of prefix-free and fix-free codes with specified codeword compositions 
Discrete Applied Mathematics (DAM)
vol. 159, no. 18, 2011. (with M. Zadimoghaddam)


Keywords:
 A proof to the CARTER & GILL Conjecture for distinct codes,  Approximation algorithm 

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Anti-Uniform Huffman Codes 
IET Communications
vol. 5, no. 1, 2011. (with S. Mohajer)
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Keywords: Information (Shannon) theory, AUH codes, Huffman coding
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Revenue Maximization in Spectrum Auction for Dynamic Spectrum Access
ACM VALUETOOLS, Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Paris, France.  pp. 558-564. 2011.
 (with A. Nayyar, D. Teneketzis)


Keywords: Bayesian Auction, Spectrum allocation, Revenue maximization




Last Update: August 2018