A Geometric Analysis of Gains from Trade
Abstract
We provide a geometric proof that the random proposer mechanism is a 4-approximation to the first-best gains from trade in bilateral exchange. We then refine this geometric analysis to recover the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of 3.15.
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