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Bulow, Jeremy; Levin, Jonathan; Milgrom, Paul - 2021

We describe factors that make bidding in large spectrum auctions complex -- including exposure and budget problems, the role of timing within an ascending auction, and the possibilities for price forecasting -- and how economic and game-theoretic analysis can assist bidders in overcoming these...

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On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2010

In the contingent valuation literature, both anchoring and acquiescence biases pose problems when using an iterative bidding game to infer willingness to pay. Anchoring bias occurs when the willingness to pay estimate is sensitive to the initially presented starting value. Acquiescence bias...

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Public Versus Secret Reserve Prices in Ebay Auctions : Results from a Pokemon Field Experiment

Katkar, Rama; Reiley, David H. - 2021

, versus the option of making the reserve public by using it as the minimum bid level. In a field experiment, we auction 50 …

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Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2010

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy …

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Inference of Bidders' Risk Attitudes in Ascending Auctions with Endogenous Entry

Fang, Hanming - 2013

Bidders' risk attitudes have key implications for choices of revenue-maximizing auction formats. In ascending auctions, bid distributions do not provide information about risk preference. We infer risk attitudes using distributions of transaction prices and participation decisions in ascending...

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Grading on a Curve, and Other Effects of Group Size on All-Pay Auctions

Andreoni, James - 2014

our predictions in a laboratory experiment that compares two-bidder auctions with one prize and 20-bidder auctions with …

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Last Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Internet

Roth, Alvin E.; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021

have a fixed end time. A natural experiment is available because the auctions on Amazon, while operating under otherwise …

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Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments : A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

Harrison, Glenn W. - 2010

from the field context of the task that theory purports to explain. Using common value auction theory as our guide, we … identify naturally occurring settings in which one can test the theory. In our treatments the subjects are not picked at random … conclude that the theory predicts field behavior well when one is able to identify naturally occurring field counterparts to …

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Are Structural Estimates of Auction Models Reasonable? Evidence from Experimental Data

Bajari, Patrick L.; Hortaçsu, Ali - 2022

Recently, economists have developed methods for structural estimation of auction models. Many researchers object to these methods because they find the rationality assumptions used in these models to be implausible. In this paper, we explore whether structural auction models can generate...

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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes

Decarolis, Francesco - 2016

of price competition on contract execution. We analyze a unique experiment run by a large utility company in Italy which … suppliers, are long-lasting (for at least 10 years after the initial experiment) and are reflected in higher service quality by …

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