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In a common value auction in which the information partitions of the bidders are connected, all rings are core-stable. More precisely, the ex ante expected utilities of rings, at the (noncooperative) sophisticated equilibrium proposed by Einy, Haimanko, Orzach and Sela (Journal of Mathematical...
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We compare auctioning and grandfathering as allocation mechanisms of emission permits when there is a secondary market with market power and the firms have private information. Based on real-life cases such as the EU ETS, we consider a multi-unit, multi-bid uniform auction, modelled as a...
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We study the competition to acquire the exclusive right to operate an infrastructure service, by comparing two different specifications for the financial proposals - "lowest price to consumers" vs "highest concession fee", and two alternative contractual arrangements: a contract which imposes...
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discriminatory auction is found to be more susceptible to collusion than are the uniform-price auctions, and so contrary to …
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We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U ….S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … extends the theory of private value auctions with heterogeneous bidders to capture participation decisions, that can account …
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We study the competition to operate an infrastructure service by developing a model where firms report a two-dimensional sealed bid: the price to consumers and the concession fee paid to the government. Two alternative bidding rules are considered in this paper. One rule consists of awarding the...
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We consider an auction setting in which potential buyers, even if they fail to obtain the good, care about the price paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second-price auction in a symmetric information framework. First, we...
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This paper studies multi-attribute auctions in which a buyer seeks to procure a complex good and evaluate offers using … kinds of results. First, we characterize the set of equilibria in quasi-linear scoring auctions with multi-dimensional types …. In particular, we show that there exists a mapping between the class of equilibria in these scoring auctions and those in …
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Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce … resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions …-term auctions for transmission capacity are not necessarily preferable to regulatory approved capacity expansion. …
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We study sealed-bid auctions with financial externalities, i.e., auctions in which losers’ utilities depend on how much …
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