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Comparing open and sealed bid auctions : theory and evidence from timber auctions

Athey, Susan; Levin, Jonathan; Seira, Enrique - 2004

We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U ….S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … extends the theory of private value auctions with heterogeneous bidders to capture participation decisions, that can account …

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Estimating China's capital flows-at-risk : the case of potential US financial sanctions

Jeong, Daehee - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 4, pp. 43-78

The arena of strategic competition between the US and China is expandable from international politics, trade and commerce to finance. What would happen if financial sanctions against China are imposed by the US? Would US financial sanctions lead to a sudden outflow of foreign capital and a...

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Behavioral biases of dealers in U.S. Treasury auctions

Goldreich, David - 2004

This paper provides evidence of bounded rationality by large dealers in U.S. Treasury auctions. I argue that these … auctions are precisely such economic agents. …

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On the interaction between product markets and markets for production capacity : the case of the electricity industry

Richter, Jan - 2012

We study the interdependency between two markets, where the first involves offering production capacity, while on the second actual production is sold. The key issue is that the expected product market outcome determines the opportunity cost for bidding at the capacity market while the capacity...

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Informational Advantage in US Treasury Auctions

Tchuindjo, Leonard - 2019

We extend Wilson (1979) share auction framework to model the uniform-price US Treasury auction as a two-stage multiple leader-follower game. We then explicitly derive the primary dealer's (follower) strategic choice of bids as a function of its customer's (leader) bids and show that an increase...

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Pre-Auction Short Positions and Impacts on Primary Dealers' Bidding Behavior in US Treasury Auctions

Tchuindjo, Leonard - 2019

We model the uniform-price US Treasury security auction as a static symmetric game of incomplete information in which each payer is a primary dealer who submits a demand schedule given two independent sources of private information – his pre-auction short position of the auctioned security,...

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Some evidence on late bidding in eBay auctions

Wintr, Ladislav - 2008

Bidding in the last seconds or minutes of an auction is a common strategy in Internet auctions with fixed end …-times. This paper examines the three explanations of late bidding in eBay auctions that survived the first scrutiny in Roth and …

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