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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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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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Auctions are the allocation-mechanisms of choice whenever goods and information in markets are scarce. Therefore, understanding how information affects welfare and revenues in these markets is of fundamental interest. We introduce new statistical concepts, k- and k-m-dispersion, for...
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