Optimizing Quality Scores for position auctions in online marketplace

with Carl Mela & Hana Choi

- Optimizing Quality Score indices in position auctions for a 2-sided online marketplace, so as to maximize total marketplace revenue due to clicks and conversions.

- Estimate a structural model to predict demand and supply side behavior, and use it to optimize over the policy space of counterfactual Quality Score algorithms.

Siddharth Prusty
Siddharth Prusty
PhD Student, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University