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Uniform-price auctions of a divisible good in fixed supply admit underpricing equilibria, where bidders submit high inframarginal bids to prevent competition on prices. The seller can obstruct this behavior by tilting her supply schedule and making the amount of divisible good on offer change...
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We study the competition to acquire the exclusive right to operate an infrastructure service, by comparing two different specifications for the financial proposals - "lowest price to consumers" vs "highest concession fee", and two alternative contractual arrangements: a contract which imposes...
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-unit, multi-bid uniform auction, modelled as a Bayesian game of incomplete information. At the auction each firm anticipates his … as their bidding strategies and it precludes the auction from generating a cost-effective allocation of permits, as it … would occur in simpler auction models. Auctioning tends to be more cost-effective than grandfathering when the firms' costs …
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Contracts providing payments for not developing natural areas, or for removing cropland from production, generally require long-term commitments. Landowners, however, can decide to prematurely terminate the contract when the opportunity cost of complying with conservation requirements increases....
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ensuing auction, leading to loss of efficiency and eliminating the revenue dominance typically observed in firstprice auctions. …
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Drawing on the real-options theory we analyse bidding behaviour in a sealed-bid-first-score procurement auction where …
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seconds of an auction, knowing that bids arriving after the closure of the auction are not counted. They also bid several … times at the same auction. We model Internet auction as a dynamic multi-unit auction. This let us explain the rationality of …
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.S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … for these qualitative effects of auction format. We then calibrate the model using parameters estimated from the data and … bidder competitiveness, which has important consequences for auction choice. …
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We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction … of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue, however, that auction markets deserve a separate treatment. Indeed we …
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and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first …
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