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In recent years, a significant problem with the carbon credit market has been the higher than initially predicted price … fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through … a flexible supply cap. The equilibrium analysis shows that modifying the cap on per period supply can decrease price …
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We investigate the strategies of a data intermediary selling consumer information to firms for price discrimination … regulatory tools – a data minimization principle and a price cap – that can be used by data protection agencies and competition …
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Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in large committees. We use this characterization to identify the set of...
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Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In...
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The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction. We provide such an analysis for the two-player case with complete and incomplete...
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We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of applications received and on the number of offers received by its candidate. When the contract space...
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these measures will adequately support the price into the future. In the meantime, governments have been turning away from … reserve price that would set a minimum price in allowance auctions. Opponents of an auction reserve price in the EU ETS have … expressed concern that a minimum auction price would interfere with economic operations in the market or would be tantamount to …
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We study the relative performance of the first‐price sealed‐bid auction and the second-price sealed‐bid auction in a … reveals the winner’s payment to an outside observer. We find that the first‐price sealed‐bid auction in which the winner …
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We study the optimal entry fee in a symmetric private value first-price auction with signaling, in which the …
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We analyze strategic leaks due to spying out a rival’s bid in a first-price auction. Such leaks induce sequential …
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