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The popularity of open ascending auctions is often attributed to the fact that openly observable bidding allows to … activate revenue enhancing biases. In an experiment, we compare three auctions that differ in how much information is revealed …
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We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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games, and show how it can be used to directly solve for equilibrium behavior in auctions, pricing games, tournaments, R …
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Unique-lowest sealed-bid auctions are auctions in which participation is endogenous and the winning bid is the lowest … bid among all unique bids. Such auctions admit very many Nash equilibria (NEs) in pure and mixed strategies. The two …
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lottery ticket.li one license is auctioned, auctions select the firm that is least risk averse.This is what we call the risk …
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of charity auctions, art auctions, and spectrum auctions. …
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The popularity of open ascending auctions is often attributed to the fact that openly observable bidding allows to … activate revenue enhancing biases. In an experiment, we compare three auctions that differ in how much information is revealed …
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We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a “sender” receives an informative but noisy signal about the impact of a charitable donation. She then...
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mechanism than the customer-initiated auction. When voting between the two auctions, participants tended to favor the server …
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activities. We use an economic experiment to examine whether the market efficiency of conservation auctions increases or … decreases with repetition. Theory predicts that repetition facilitates collusion among sellers in procurement auctions, while … effects, the latter has the upper hand; average bids decrease monotonically over the consecutive auctions. Since repetition …
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