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This paper presents an experiment on a coordination game with extrinsic random signals, in which we systematically vary the stochastic process generating these signals and measure how signals affect behavior. We find that sunspot equilibria emerge naturally if there are salient public signals....
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large number of applications, especially in auction theory, affiliation has limitations that are important to be aware of …
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We consider the set-up of a Japanese-English auction with exogenously fixed discrete bid levels for the wallet game …
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In this paper we consider equilibrium behavior in a Dutch (descending price) auction where the bidders are uninformed … auction. We assume that the information acquisition activity is covert. We characterize the equilibrium behavior in a setting …, the Dutch auction produces more revenue than would a first price auction …
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This paper characterizes the Nash equilibrium in a pay-as-bid (discriminatory), divisible-good, procurement auction …-ups of the derived equilibrium are compared to results for the SFE of a uniform-price auction …
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In this paper we consider equilibrium behavior in a Dutch (descending price) auction where the bidders are uninformed … auction. We assume that the information acquisition activity is covert. We characterize the equilibrium behavior in a setting …, the Dutch auction produces more revenue than would a first price auction …
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-strategy equilibrium solutions to the two auctions, and then test them in a sequence of experiments that vary the number of bidders and …Two types of auction were introduced on the Internet a few years ago and have rapidly been gaining widespread … finite and common strategy space specified by the auctioneer. In the unique lowest (highest) bid auction, the winner of the …
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The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history …. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction. We provide such an analysis for …
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