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This paper analyzes a two-stage sealed-bid auction that is frequently employed in privatization, takeover, and merger and acquisition contests. This auction format yields the same expected revenue as the open ascending (English) auction, yet is less susceptible to preemptive bidding and...
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Direct reciprocity means to respond in kind to another person whereas indirect reciprocity is understood here as rewarding someone else. We perform corresponding experiments which use a similar underlying structure as the reciprocity experiment of Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995). Another...
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the converse is not generally true. Moreover, first- and second-price auctions are not always revenue equivalent. Indeed …, economies of scale make the second-price format more profitable for the seller, whereas revenue equivalence holds in the case of …
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Weekly repo auctions are the European Central Bank's most important policy instrument. Provided that banks bid seriously, these auctions should reveal useful information about banks' liquidity needs and the stance of monetary policy. However 1 as we show in this paper, the applied auction rules...
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price rules, first and second price. Participants face these four games repeatedly and submit complete bid functions rather … sequencing structure of game types, game rules do matter, and directional learning theory offers a partial explanation for bid …
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Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
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of prices during the day and analyse the relation between the final price struck and the proposals of the two parties. We … show what happens to the seller's first price and to the transaction price as the seller revises his idea of the … distribution of the buyer's reservation price. We show that periods with no buyer refusals, of offers or bargaining with no …
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This study examines bidder preferences between alternative auction institutions. In particular we seek to experimentally characterize the degree to which bidders prefer an ascending auction over a sealed bid auction. We find very strong ceteris paribus preferences for the ascending institution...
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