Electricity market design in the United States is increasingly dominated by locational marginal pricing (LMP) of energy and transmission. LMP markets are typically coupled with periodic auctions of financial transmission rights (FTRs) to hedge transmission price risks. While LMP designs offer...

We examine auction design in a context where symmetrically informed buyers and sellers of a good with a common but uncertain value learn through experience. Buyer strategies, even in the very long run, do not converge to the Bertrand-Nash strategy of bidding the expected value of the good....