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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the...
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A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized; the equilibrium is privately...
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We develop a macroeconomic framework in which firms are large and have market power with respect to both products and labor. Each firm maximizes a share-weighted average of shareholder utilities, which makes the equilibrium independent of price normalization. In a one-sector economy, if returns...
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This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with minority shareholdings. We find that, with high market concentration and sufficiently convex demand, there is no scope for cross-ownership to improve welfare regardless of spillover levels. Otherwise,...
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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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to making an auction choice impacts their choice decision and/or the outcome of the auctions. The results show a strong …
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The conventional wisdom in the auction design literature is that first price sealed bid auctions tend to make more … money while ascending auctions tend to be more efficient. We re-examine these issues in an environment in which bidders are … 'overentry' into the ascending auctions. …
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bidders could resolve this anomaly the claim that risk aversion drives overbidding in first price auctions is somewhat …
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experiment to study seller behavior in online auctions with a Buy-It-Now feature, where early potential bidders have the … invited eBay buyers and sellers into the lab to participate in a series of auctions on the eBay platform. We investigate how …
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This paper analyzes the trade of an indivisible good within a two-stage mechanism, where a seller first negotiates with one potential buyer about the price of the good. If the negotiation fails to produce a sale, a second 'price sealed' bid auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The...
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