This paper considers the social costs implied by inefficient allocation of contracts in a first price, sealed bid procurement auction with asymmetric bidders. We adopt a constrained (piecewise linear) strategy equilibrium concept and estimate the structural parameters of the bidders'...

This paper considers the social costs implied by inefficient allocation of contracts in a first price, sealed bid procurement auction with asymmetric bidders. We adopt a constrained (piecewise linear) strategy equilibrium concept and estimate the structural parameters of the bidders’...

The paper studies the problem of minimizing coherent risk measures of shortfall for general discrete-time financial models with cone-constrained trading strategies, as developed by Pham and Touzi. It is shown that the optimal strategy is obtained by super-hedging a contingent claim, which is...