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, procurement contests, or R&D. We consider the cases where firms have (i) independent values and (ii) common values of winning the …
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Electronic commerce has grown extraordinarily over the years, with online auctions being extremely successful forms of … trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … in Buy-It-Now auctions, as to this point little is known about how sellers set Buy-It-Now prices. We investigate into …
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We consider a model of oligopolistic firms that have private information about their cost structure. Prior to competing in the market a competitive advantage, i.e., a cost reducing technology, is allocated to a subset of the firms by means of a multi-object auction. After the auction either all...
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We consider the effect of asymmetric information on price formation process in a financial market where private information is held by a market maker. A Bayesian game is proposed in which there is price competition between two market makers with two different information partitions. At each...
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We empirically assess the winner’s curse effect in auctions for toll road concessions. First, we investigate the …
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We study a general model of common-value second-price auctions with differential information. We show that one of the …
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We study a class of common-value second-price auctions with differential information. This class of common …-value auctions is characterized by the property that each player's information set is connected with respect to the common value. We …
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We study an elimination tournament with heterogenous contestants whose ability is common-knowledge. Each pair-wise match is modeled as an all-pay auction where the winner gets the right to compete at the next round. Equilibrium efforts are in mixed strategies, yielding rather complex play...
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We study the alternating-offer bargaining problem of sharing a common value pie under incomplete information on both sides and no depreciation between two identical players. We characterise the essentially unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium of this game which turns out to be in gradually...
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This paper studies endogenous entry and ex ante revenue-maximizing auctions in an independent private value setting …
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