auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The theoretical model predicts that with risk neutral agents all sales take … place in the auction rendering the negotiation prior to the auction obsolete. An experimental test of the model provides …

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys. Focusing on … practical examples, this textbook offers over 80 exercises that predict bidders’ equilibrium behaviour in different auction … formats, along with the seller’s strategic incentives to organize one auction format over the other. The book emphasizes game …

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys. Focusing on … practical examples, this textbook offers over 80 exercises that predict bidders’ equilibrium behaviour in different auction … formats, along with the seller’s strategic incentives to organize one auction format over the other. The book emphasizes game …

An auction is externality-robust if unilateral deviations from equilibrium leave the other bidders' payoffs unaffected … externalities due to spiteful preferences, which have been used to explain overbidding in the second-price auction (SPA). Another … example are cross-shareholdings between companies that compete in an auction. We derive an auction that coincides with the SPA …