In this paper we generalize a result of Guruswami et. al., showing that in unlimited-supply combinatorial auctions, a surprisingly simple mechanism that offers the same price for each item achieves revenue within a logarithmic factor of the total social welfare for bidders with general valuation functions (not just single-minded or unit-demand bidders as in [7]). We also extend this to the limited-supply setting for the special case of bidders with additive valuations. These are both settings for which Likhodedov and Sandholm provide logarithmic approximations but via much more complex bundle-pricing mechanisms.

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*School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University

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