Mete Şeref Ahunbay

Publications

Journal Publications

• Solving Large-Scale Electricity Market Pricing Problems in Polynomial Time [arXiv] [Elsevier (EJOR)]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler, Teodora Doboş, Johanner Knörr
  In European Journal of Operational Research, accepted 11th May, 2024.
  Winner of the 2026 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper - Innovative Application of OR.
• Pricing Optimal Outcomes in Coupled and Non-Convex Markets: Theory and Applications to Electricity Markets [arXiv] [ACM] [OR]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler, Johannes Knörr
  Presented at the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'23).
  In Operations Research, accepted 17th April, 2024.
• The Price of Anarchy of Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions [arXiv] [Springer (WINE'20)] [ACM (TEAC)]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Adrian Vetta.
  Presented at the 16th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE'20).
  In ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, accepted 27th February 2023.

Conference Papers

• Gradient Dynamics in First-Price Auctions: Iterative Strategy Elimination via Cubic Potentials
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Weiqiang Zheng, Tao Lin
  Accepted for the 27th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'26).
• The Computational Intractability of Not Worst Responding [arXiv]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Paul W. Goldberg, Edwin Lock, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Bary S. R. Pradelski, Bassel Tarbush
  Accepted for the 27th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'26).
• First-Order (Coarse) Correlated Equilibria in Non-Concave Games [arXiv]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay
  Accepted for the 58th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC'26).
• Semicoarse Correlated Equilibria and LP-Based Guarantees for Gradient Dynamics in Normal-Form Games [arXiv] [ACM]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler
  Presented at the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'25).
  Submitted to Mathematics of Operations Research.
• On the Uniqueness of Bayesian Coarse Correlated Equilibria in Standard First-Price and All-Pay Auctions [arXiv] [SIAM]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler
  Presented at the 2025 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA’25).
• Improved Two Sample Revenue Guarantees via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming [MATLAB/Mathematica Code] [arXiv] [Springer]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Adrian Vetta
  In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT'21).
• The Price of Stability of Envy-Free Equilibria in Multi-Buyer Sequential Auctions [Springer]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Brendan Lucier, Adrian Vetta
  In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT'21).
• Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions with No Overbidding [arXiv] [Springer]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Brendan Lucier, Adrian Vetta
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT'20).

Outreach / Dissemination

• Recent Challenges in Designing Electricity Spot Markets [NBER]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler, Johannes Knörr
  New Directions in Market Design, eds. I. Lo, M. Ostrovsky & P. Pathak, 2023.
• Electricity Market Design 2030-2050: Shaping Future Electricity Markets for a Climate-Neutral Europe [Synergie]
  Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Amir Ashour Novirdoust, Rajon Bhuiyan, Martich Bichler, Shilpa Bindu, Entre Bjørndal, Metter Bjørndal, Hans Ulrich Buhl, José Pablo Chaves-Ávila, Helena Gerard, Stephan Gross, Lisa Hanny, Johannes Knörr, Clara Sophie Köhnen, Luciana Marques, Antonello Monti, Karsten Neuhoff, Christoph Neumann, Elena Ocenic, Marion Ott, Markus Pichlmeier, Jörn C. Richstein, Maximillian Rinck, Felix Röhrich, Paul Maximilian Röhrig, Alexander Sauer, Jens Strüker, Matteo Troncia, Johannes Wagner, Martin Weibelzahl, Philip Zilke
  Whitepaper, Kopernikus SynErgie & OneNet Project.