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Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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The paper compares different auction formats for sale of a single patented innovation for budget constrained bidders … auction price and also to develop the new technology, the winner has incentives to pay a low amount for his unit to increase … equilibria for all studied auction mechanisms. These equilibria produce di¤erent consumer surplus and, thus, a central government …
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. Enterprises embarking on a reverse auction initiative often start with their commodity purchases. We conduct laboratory … sealed bid auction and has the same symmetric Nash equilibrium. However, the request for quote allows identification of … strategies in the sell auction counterpart. Consequently we estimate that one-fourth of the subjects follow a simple mark-up rule …
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This paper estimates the value of superstitions by studying the auctions of vehicle license plates. We show that the value of superstitions is economically significant, which in turn justifies their persistence in human civilization. We also show that such a value, though based inherently on...
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This paper uses a simple approach to address the issue of how revenue sharing in professional sports leagues can affect the allocation of free agent players to teams. To affect the allocation of free agents, the imposition of revenue sharing must alter the ranking of bidding teams in terms of...
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A bidder may increase his bid over the course of an auction when (1) he becomes more certain about his private … return to the auction to submit a bid in a later period. …
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oligopoly model with an "endogenous valuations" auction model. Thereby, I take into account that, in an oligopoly, a firm …
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payoffs. In addition, there were three particularly interesting extensions from conventional auction models that were examined …
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We study a market model where there are n different types of indivisible goods for sale. The goods can be substitutable or complementary. There are multiple units of each good. Each agent may consume several goods and has quasi-linear utilities in money. We introduce a general condition which...
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source of cattle for small operations was directly from auction markets (46.9 percent of cattle). For large operations, the …
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