In this paper, we study mergers in oral or second-price auctions and compare them to mergers in sealed-bid or first-price auctions. We use an adaptation of the logit qualitative choice model to characterize the underlying bidder value distributions. In second-price auctions, this model has a...

We analyze a class of parametric second-price auction models where asymmetry is modeled by allowing bidders to take different numbers of draws from the same distribution. We compute the closed-form distribution of price and construct likelihood and method-of-moments estimators to recover the...

In this paper, we derive estimators of, and closed-form (non-integral) expressions for, the distribution of bids in an extreme value, asymmetric, second-price, private-values auction. In equilibrium, prices (winning bids) and shares (winning probabilities) have a simple monotonic...