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We characterize the equilibrium of the all-pay auction with general convex cost of effort and sequential effort choices. We consider a set of n players who are arbitrarily partitioned into a group of players who choose their efforts ?early? and a group of players who choose ?late?. Only the...
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...
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The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market … highly influential paper, Falk and Szech (2013) provide experimental data that seem to suggest that “market interaction … corroborate their conclusion. These treatments, however, reveal that repeated play and not market interaction causes the erosion …
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This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis … some institutional investors are more informed traders that stabilize the market compared to individuals that always …
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The present note analyzes the Simultaneous Ascending Bid Auction with arbitrarily many bidders with decreasing marginal valuations under complete information. We show that the game is solvable by iterated elimination of weakly dominated strategies if the efficient allocation assigns at least one...
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instead focus more on their domestic market. In the second step, the paper presents adjustment dynamics that are induced by a …
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In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and …
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The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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In an experiment that elicits subjects’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on the magnitude and sign of the relative risk...
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preferred market access for final goods if a sufficiently high fraction of inputs used in the production process is sourced …
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