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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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-linear demand curves with quantities as flows (shares/second). Batch auctions clear all asset markets jointly in discrete time …
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be decentralized by sellers posting auctions combined with a fee that is paid by (or to) all buyers with whom the seller …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now"...
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Two potentially asymmetric players compete for a prize of common value, which is initially unknown, by exerting efforts. A designer has two instruments for contest design. First, she decides whether and how to disclose an informative signal of the prize value to players. Second, she sets the...
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We study specialized lending in a credit market competition model with private information. Two banks, equipped with similar data processing systems, possess "general" signals regarding the borrower's quality. However, the specialized bank gains an additional advantage through further...
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We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and Klemperer (1996), connecting their theoretical results...
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this question, we offer a framework that compares auctions with negotiations. We then examine a comprehensive data set of … potential limitations to the use of auctions. Auctions perform poorly when projects are complex, contractual design is … incomplete and there are few available bidders. Furthermore, auctions stifle communication between buyers and the sellers …
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