This paper considers a general package auction problem and a class of payment rules we refer to as standard. In a “standard” pricing rule, each winner pays at least his “minimum required value” to win. The minimum required value coincides with the payment in the Vickrey auction, and...

This paper considers a class of combinatorial auctions with ascending prices, which includes the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism and core-selecting auctions. In every ascending auction, the Vickrey-target strategy, i.e., bidding up to the Vickrey price based on provisional valuations,...

This study compares standard auctions when bidders are financially constrained and valuation is endogenously determined by ex post investment. Bidders have a convex cost function because of financial constraints or borrowing costs. When the valuation is linear in investment, the revenue and...

This paper analyzes the Bayesian-Nash equilibrium of a package auction under incomplete information. We consider the ascending proxy auction with single-minded bidders. A single-minded bidder is interested in a unique bundle of goods and submits bids only for that bundle. We first provide a...