Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom)
About this episode
Nobel Prize winner Paul Milgrom discusses the importance of auction design and its impact on market dynamics.
Long before onchain markets made mechanism design a daily engineering problem, Nobel Prize winner Paul Milgrom was asking how prices actually form — and how better auction rules could reshape actual markets.
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