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Overview

Rakesh Vohra is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has focused research in the areas of economics, econometrics, decision sciences, and management science and operations research. Their body of work includes a strong emphasis on game theory, auction theory, economic models, and applications related to COVID-19 epidemiology and banking stability.

Their recent research papers demonstrate a range of topics and publication venues, including:

  • Free and perfectly safe but only partially effective vaccines can harm everyone, 2020, Games and Economic Behavior
  • Network formation and systemic risk, 2022, European Economic Review
  • Testing Alone Is Insufficient, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Moment Multicalibration for Uncertainty Estimation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • (Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities, 2024, Journal of Political Economy

Vohra frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Games and Economic Behavior

Their main fields of study are:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Decision Sciences

More specifically, Vohra's work covers these subfields:

  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Strategy and Management
  • Finance
  • Artificial Intelligence

The primary topics in their research include:

  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Economic theories and models
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Business Strategy and Innovation

Frequent collaborators in Vohra's research include:

  • Selman Erol
  • Mallesh M. Pai
  • Akhil Vohra
  • Aaron Roth
  • Sven de Vries

Best Publications

  • Combinatorial Auctions: A Survey

    Sven de Vries;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • The Orienteering Problem

    Bruce L. Golden;Larry Levy;Rakesh Vohra

  • Regret in the On-line Decision Problem

    D. Foster;R. Vohra

  • New algorithms for an ancient scheduling problem

    Yair Bartal;Amos Fiat;Howard Karloff;Rakesh Vohra

  • Mechanism Design: A Linear Programming Approach

    Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Finding the most vital arcs in a network

    Michael O. Ball;Bruce L. Golden;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • On ascending Vickrey auctions for heterogeneous objects

    Sven de Vries;James Schummer;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Strategy-proof Location on a Network

    James Schummer;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Linear programming and Vickrey auctions

    Sushil Bikhchandani;Sven de Vries;James Schummer;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Sponsored Search Auctions

    Sébastien Lahaie;David M. Pennock;Amin Saberi;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Characterization of Revenue Equivalence

    Birgit Heydenreich;Rudolf Müller;Marc Jochen Uetz;Rakesh Vohra

  • On dependent randomized rounding algorithms

    Dimitris Bertsimas;Chungpiaw Teo;Rakesh Vohra

  • Algorithmic Game Theory: Mechanism Design without Money

    James Schummer;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Market Research and Market Design

    Sandeep Baliga;Rakesh Vohra

  • Sequential Bandwidth and Power Auctions for Distributed Spectrum Sharing

    J. Bae;E. Beigman;R. Berry;M. Honig

  • Calibration with many checking rules

    Alvaro Sandroni;Rann Smorodinsky;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • A randomization rule for selecting forecasts

    Dean P. Foster;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Optimal auctions with financially constrained bidders

    Mallesh Pai;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Optimal Dynamic Auctions and Simple Index Rules

    Mallesh M. Pai;Rakesh Vohra

  • An Ascending Vickrey Auction for Selling Bases of a Matroid

    Sushil Bikhchandani;Sven de Vries;James Schummer;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Dominant Strategy Mechanisms with Multidimensional Types

    Hongwei Gui;Rudolf Müller;Rakesh V. Vohra

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall A. Berry
Randall A. Berry Northwestern University
Michael L. Honig
Michael L. Honig Northwestern University
Dean P. Foster
Dean P. Foster Amazon (United States)
Chung-Piaw Teo
Chung-Piaw Teo National University of Singapore
Aaron Roth
Aaron Roth University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas G. Hall
Nicholas G. Hall The Ohio State University
Sampath Kannan
Sampath Kannan University of Pennsylvania
Lance Fortnow
Lance Fortnow Illinois Institute of Technology
Amin Saberi
Amin Saberi Stanford University

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