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auction sites including eBay and General Motors Assistance Corporation. A buyer in a buy price auction can accept the buy … price to win with certainty and end the auction early. Intuitively, the buy price option may appeal to bidders who are risk … aversion and time preferences. We develop a private value model of bidder behavior in a buy price auction with a temporary buy …
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, i.e., the first best, is not implementable. Our first main result is that the open ascending auction is not second best … because it is prone to rushes, i.e., all active bidders quitting simultaneously, that undermine its efficiency. Our second … main result is that the second best can be implemented with a two-round auction used in real-life privatizations. We also …
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their auction end at the evening, when many potential buyers may be online. …
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A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … papers by Varian (2007) and Edelman, et al. (2007) seem to organize the data well overall. Efficiency under VCG exceeds that … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …
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A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … papers by Varian (2007) and Edelman et al. (2007) seem to organize the data well overall. Efficiency under VCG exceeds that … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …
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We present an empirical investigation of the role of marketing agencies in Google's online ad auctions. By combining data on advertisers' affiliation to marketing agencies with data on bidding in ad auctions, we analyze how changes in the concentration of clients in the same industry under the...
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A striking feature of many online sales platforms is the coexistence of multiple sales mechanisms. Items on eBay, for instance, are frequently offered through auctions, posted prices, and buy-it-now auctions. In this article, I study how this mechanism multiplicity influences the welfare of...
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information' assumption. The ad value is characterized by a tractable analytical solution given observed auction parameters. Using … Yahoo! search auction data, we estimate value distributions and study the bidding behavior across product categories. We …
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generalized second price auctions. However, such an auction or mechanism could be considered unfair if similar consumers are … assignment can improve fairness while improving efficiency in some circumstances. …
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