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This paper reports on experiments testing the viability of markets for cheap talk information. We find that the poor quality of the information transmitted leads to a collapse of information markets. The reasons for this are surprising given the previous experimental results on cheap-talk games....
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We study when equilibrium prices can aggregate information in an auction market with a large population of traders. Our …
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This paper studies the incentives faced by competing auctioneers who can release information to prospective bidders before bidders choose trading partners. I provide sufficient conditions that ensure the existence of a unique equilibrium in which both sellers release all available information....
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I study a mechanism design problem of allocating a single good to an agent when the mechanism is followed by a post-mechanism game (aftermarket) played between the agent and a third-party. The aftermarket is beyond the direct control of the designer. However, she can influence the information...
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that although correlation tightens the conditions on preferences for a truth-telling equilibrium, in the presence of … uncertainty, a high level of correlation may discipline the strongly biased expert and may foster the informational content of the … experts’ advice under high uncertainty about correlation. In contrast to what may be expected, it may be optimal for the …
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better off under the dynamic mechanism relative to a Vickrey-like auction because the intermediaries are more able to exploit …-like auction. Finally, I show that in large markets the dynamic mechanism and Vickrey-like auction have the same expected total …
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takeovers. After the auction, the winning bidder decides whether to make follow-up investments in the acquired asset and makes … the equity payment out of the revenue from it according to the auction outcome. Before the auction, the seller holds …
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auction model in which a seller's choice of reserve price signals her private information about the object's quality. We show …. We estimate the reserve price signaling model using a novel dataset from a large online auto auction platform. We find …
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condition for total monotonicity. The REE is an efficient SCF so it is attainable by an auction if and only if it satisfies …
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selling mechanism, including an auction, and release additional information about the house to buyers. Release of information … adjusts the buyers' values and bids. We find that the optimal mechanism is a combination of the optimal auction and full … information disclosure. But if the seller uses a second-price auction instead, concealing additional information about the house …
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