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Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
Tian Bai, Yiding Feng, Yaohao Liu, Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12054 https://

Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
This paper explores the economic interactions within modern crowdsourcing markets. In these markets, employers issue requests for tasks, platforms facilitate the recruitment of crowd workers, and workers complete tasks for monetary rewards. Recognizing that these roles serve distinct functions within the ecosystem, we introduce a three-party model that distinguishes among the principal (the requester), the intermediary (the platform), and the pool of agents (the workers). The principal, unable …