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extra information about the state. Our findings sharply contrast with past work which shows that in large auctions where …
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Overbidding in auctions has been attributed to e.g. risk aversion, loser regret, level-k, and cursedness, relying on … psychological phenomenon that naturally applies to auctions. First, I show that type projection generates the main behavioral … phenomena observed in auctions, including increased sense of competition (\"loser regret\") and broken Bayesian updating …
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The procurement of complex projects is often plagued by large cost overruns. One important reason for these additional costs are flaws in the initial design. If the project is procured with a price-only auction, sellers who spotted some of the flaws have no incentive to reveal them early. Each...
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This paper highlights connections between the discrete and continuous approaches to optimal auction design with single and multi-dimensional types. We provide an interpretaion of an optimal auction design problem in terms of a linear program that is an instance of a parametric shortest path...
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We study all-pay auctions (or wars of attrition), where the highest bidder wins an object, but all bidders pay their … bids. We consider such auctions when two bidders alternate in raising their bids and where all aspects of the auction are … determining the outcome of the auctions. …
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in strategic settings. This article studies the role of anchoring bias in private-value auctions. We test experimentally … biased beliefs. In Dutch auctions, the effect of a starting price, is negative. We demonstrate that the long …
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Winners in online auctions frequently fail to complete purchases. Major auction platforms therefore allow "second …
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Government procurement and allocation programs often use subsidies and setasides favoring small businesses and other target groups to address fairness concerns. These concerns are in addition to standard objectives such as efficiency and revenue. We study the design of the optimal mechanism for...
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- namely, equilibrium existence in first-price auctions and the revenue dominance of second-price auctions - do not generalize …
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comprehensive investigation on the revenue ranking of auctions under general dependence. …
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