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The paper empirically studies why the sellers of identical commodities adopt dier- ent auction formats in the online … auction, and the consequences thereof. We postulate that the sellers adopt dierent auction formats because of the dierences in …'s choice between three auction formats: xed-price, buy-it-now (BIN), and pure auctions. We then estimate the dierences in sales …
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greater than a threshold value. The theory also implies that the expected transaction price is higher in an auction with an …
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This Working Paper is a summary of a workshop which was held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria in 1992. Small scale privatization (SSP) of shops, restaurants and other consumer services has been accomplished in the first stage of the complex...
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This paper examines the effect of information sharing on supply chain configuration where the market characterized by demand uncertainty. A dynamic multi-stage game theoretic model with incomplete information is employed to capture the sequence of events. Our supply chain consists of two...
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A characteristic of the news market is that consumers often cross-check information, i.e. observe several news outlets. At the same time, data on political media suggest that more partisan consumers are more likely to cross-check. We explore these phenomena by building a model of horizontal...
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We consider a takeover in which risk neutral bidders must incur participation costs and study their optimal strategy. We found that bidders decision of participation is endogenous. There is a threshold of private participation cost above that a potential bidder will stay out of takeover process....
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ascending auction is a natural institution for achieving either efficient or optimal outcomes. Interestingly, this is not the … case for sequential second-price auctions, as the bids in a second-price auction do not reveal sufficient information to …
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ascending auction is a natural institution for achieving either efficient or optimal outcomes. Interestingly, this is not the … case for sequential second-price auctions, as the bids in a second-price auction do not reveal sufficient information to …
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-maximizing incentive compatible direct mechanisms. Our main result shows that the sequential ascending auction is a simple indirect …
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We empirically assess the winner’s curse effect in auctions for toll road concessions. First, we investigate the overall winner’s curse effects on bidding behaviour. Second, we account for differing levels of common-value components. Third, we investigate whether the possibility of...
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