This paper examines finite parimutuel betting games with asymmetric information, with particular attention to differences between sequential and simultaneous settings, and betweenfully rational and myopic ("price taking") behavior. In the simultaneous parimutuel market,all (symmetric and...

We study auctions for an indivisble object. The outcome of the auction influences the future interaction among agents. The impact of that interaction on agent i is assumed to be a funciton of the agents' valuations. While agent's i valuation is private information to i, other valuations are not...

We study efficient, Bayes-Nash incentive compatible mechanisms in a general social choice setting that allows for informationally interdependent valuations and for allocative externalities. We show that such mechanisms exist only if a congruence condition relating private and social rates of...