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Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...
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Because sequential auctions have permeated society more than ever, it is desirable for participants to have the optimal strategies beforehand. However, finding closed-form solutions to various sequential auction games is challenging. Current literature provides some answers for specific cases...
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A great body of knowledge exists on the theory of auctions and competitive bidding that is of potential relevance to … to the body of knowledge on the economic theory of auctions by closing some of the gap between theory and practice. …
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A great body of knowledge exists on the theory of auctions and competitive bidding that is of potential relevance to … variability bidders. The work contributes to the body of knowledge on the economic theory of auctions by closing some of the gap … between theory and practice. …
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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory … at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention … politically important. I illustrate with some disastrous government auctions, but also show the value of economic theory. …
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The experimental literature has documented that there is overbidding in second-price auctions, regardless of bidders' valuations. In contrast, in first-price auctions there tends to be overbidding for large valuations, but underbidding for small valuations. We show that the experimental evidence...
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This is a near-final draft of the 2004 Princeton University text with the same title.
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This paper, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Surveys, provides an elementary, non-technical, survey of auction theory … a companion book, The Economic Theory of Auctions, Paul Klemperer (ed.), Edward Elgar (pub.), 1999.) We begin with the …, budget constraints, externalities, testing the theory, and other topics. Appendices contain technical details, some simple …
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It is widely believed that the English auction is solved after the dominated strategies are eliminated. This opinion is formally confirmed only for one "ascending clock" auction and can not be generalized for most other English auctions. In this paper I show that the formal argument which is...
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