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Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions?

Klemperer, Paul; Bulow, Jeremy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

We compare the most common methods for selling a company or other asset when participation is costly: a simple simultaneous auction, and a sequential process in which potential buyers decide in turn whether or not to enter the bidding. The sequential process is always more efficient. But...

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Auctions: Theory and Practice

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

picking selectively â€“ an advanced undergraduate or MBA course on auctions and auction design. Part A introduces the basic … superficially unconnected with auctions. Part C discusses practical auction design. Part D describes the one-hundred-billion dollar … 3G mobile-phone license auctions. None of the writing is technical, except in the Appendices. …

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Toeholds and Takeovers

Klemperer, Paul; Bulow, Jeremy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1998

Part ownership of a takeover target can help a bidder win a takeover auction, often at a low price. A bidder with a toehold bids aggressively in a standard ascending auction because its offers are both bids for the remaining shares and asks for its own holdings. While the direct effect of a...

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Why Every Economist Should Learn some Auction Theory

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

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When are Auctions Best?

Klemperer, Paul; Bulow, Jeremy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

We compare the two most common bidding processes for selling a company or other asset when participation is costly to buyers. In an auction all entry decisions are made prior to any bidding. In a sequential bidding earlier entrants can make bids before later entrants choose whether to compete....

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Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

a companion book, The Economic Theory of Auctions, Paul Klemperer (ed,), Edward Elgar (pub.), 1999.) We begin with the … most fundamental concepts, and then introduce the basic analysis of optimal auctions, the revenue equivalence theorem, and … marginal revenues. Subsequent sections address risk-aversion, affiliation, asymmetries, entry, collusion, multi-unit auctions …

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The Generalized War of Attrition

Klemperer, Paul; Bulow, Jeremy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

We model a War of Attrition with N+K firms competing for N prizes. If firms must pay their full costs until the whole game ends, even after dropping out themselves (as in a standard-setting context), each firms exit time is independent both of K and of other players actions. If, instead, firms...

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The Biggest Auction Ever: the Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licences

Klemperer, Paul; Binmore, Ken - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

the time as the biggest auction ever. We discuss the merits of auctions versus beauty contests, the aims of the auction …

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How (Not) to Run Auctions: The European 3G Telecom Auctions

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

auctions, from 20 Euros per capita in Switzerland to 650 Euros per capita in the U.K., though the values of the licences sold …. The sequencing of the auctions was also crucial. We discuss the auctions in the U.K., Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria …

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Applying Auction Theory to Economics

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

economic settings that do not, at first sight, look like auctions. We also discuss some more obvious applications, especially …

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