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Jump bidding is a commonly observed phenomenon that involves bidders in ascending auctions submitting bids higher than required by the auctioneer. Such behavior is typically explained as due to irrationality or to bidders signaling their value. We present field data that suggests such...
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asset that is too large or too risky for a single individual or financial institution so that an auction method is not … and a SS is provided. The difference between an auction scheme and a subscription scheme is discussed. …
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private and common valuations as special cases. We show that the key determinant of bidders' surplus (and implicitly auction … format of the auction matters. If bidders have constant marginal utilities for objects up to some limit, then uniform price …
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We study the influence of product market competition on the first-price sealed auction and the English ascending … auction with independent cost types. Bidders, valuing the license basing on the information released in the first stage … thus how much to bid, but also the information released in the auction when they win. As in the English ascending auction …
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We investigate the outcome of an auction where the auctioneer approaches one of the two existing bidders and offers an … arrangements, corruption affects both bidding behavior, efficiency and the seller's expected revenue in a first-price auction. …
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-oriented setting. An auction is a market institution with an explicit set of rules determining resource allocation and prices on the … Turkish GSM 1800 MHz auction held in April, 2000 within auction theory and competition policies framework. According to the … findings of this study, since the auction design inappropriately dealt with market conditions, Is-Tim, winning bidders of one …
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The siting of noxious facilities often involves externalities that extend beyond the border of the community selected as a site. Thus, the private information of each community is potentially a vector of costs comprising a cost for each of the possible sites. I characterize the conditions for...
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In this paper, we study an auction where bidders only know the number of potential applicants. After seeing their … values for the object, bidders decide whether or not to enter the auction. Players may not want to enter the auction since … sealed-bid auction when participation is endogenous. We show that only bidders with values greater than a certain cut …
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This paper advances an interpretation of Von Neumann–Morgenstern’s expected utility model for preferences over lotteries which does not require the notion of a cardinal utility over prizes and can be phrased entirely in the language of probability. According to it, the expected utility of a...
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This paper contains a statistical description of the whole U.S. forward rate curve (FRC), based on data from the period 1990-1996. We find that the average deviation of the FRC from the spot rate grows as the square- root of the maturity, with a proportionality constant which is comparable to...
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