Barelli, Paulo; Govindan, Srihari - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 19 (2024) 2, pp. 565-582
We provide a shorter proof of the main result in Reny and Perry (2006, Econometrica) by establishing a lower semicontinuity property of auctions as the number of traders goes to infinity, leveraging existence of equilibria in the limit auction. Our proof also eliminates two of the assumptions in...