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This paper studies optimal auction design when the seller can affect the buyersʼ valuations through an unobservable ex …
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I show that a unique equilibrium exists in an asymmetric two-player all-pay auction with a discrete signal structure …
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bids by experts to entrepreneurs who auction jobs. These knowledge bids resemble a consultant's pitch to a potential client …
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In a premium auction, the seller offers some “payback”, called premium, to a set of high bidders at the end of the … auction. This paper investigates how the performance of such premium tactics is related to the biddersʼ risk preferences. We … analyze a two-stage English premium auction model with symmetric interdependent values, in which the bidders may be risk …
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I examine the consequences of letting players compete for bargaining power in a multilateral bargaining game. In each period, the right to propose an offer is sold to the highest bidder, and all players pay their bids. If players vote according to any rule in which no player has veto power, then...
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We consider implementation of a deterministic allocation rule using transfers in quasi-linear private values environments. We show that in multidimensional single peaked type spaces, an allocation rule is implementable if and only if it satisfies a familiar and simple condition called 2-cycle...
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I study collusion between two bidders in a general symmetric IPV repeated auction, without communication, side …
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A seller has an uncertain number of perishable goods to sell in each period. Privately informed buyers arrive stochastically to the market. Buyers are risk neutral, patient, and have persistent private values for consuming a single unit. We show that the seller can implement the efficient...
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This paper studies pricing patterns in a speculative market with asymmetric information populated by both sophisticated and naive traders. Three pricing regimes arise in equilibrium: perfect pricing, with prices equalling asset values, partial mispricing and complete mispricing. Perfect pricing...
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