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Conference Papers


Designing Fair Systems for Consumers to Exploit Personalized Pricing

Published in 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2025

This paper examines how groups can exploit high dispersion personalized pricing via a trading based system to improve outcomes

Recommended citation: Karan, A., Balepur, N., & Sundaram, H. (2024). Designing Fair Systems for Consumers to Exploit Personalized Pricing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02777
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Your Browsing History May Cost You: A Framework for Discovering Differential Pricing in Non-Transparent Markets

Published in 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2023

The prices of flights and hotels in an competitive online marketplace (Kayak) is influenced by browsing history and can be decomposed to differnetiation done by the seller as well as non-seller based differentiation.

Recommended citation: Karan, A., Balepur, N., & Sundaram, H. (2023, June). Your Browsing History May Cost You: A Framework for Discovering Differential Pricing in Non-Transparent Markets. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 717-735).
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