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We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and … payoffs for both nondiscriminatory and discriminatory (where the reward is contestant-dependent) contests. We derive …
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The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the … and those situated in the nations’ main business city. Greater literacy facilitated foreign technology licensing, while … institutions like greater economic freedom aided technology licensing, while others like strong patent protection were not found to …
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We use a unique hand collected data set of 6,258 auctions from the online football manager game Hattrick to study determinants and effects of reserve prices. We find that chosen reserve prices exhibit both very sophisticated and suboptimal behavior by the sellers. On the one hand, reserve prices...
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This paper discusses alternative incentive mechanisms for encouraging pharmaceutical innovations that support global health policy priorities. Patent buyouts, in which a public fund pays a mark-up on private valuations from sealed-bid second-price auctions, would boost the efficiency of research...
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This paper shows the importance of correcting for sample selection when investing in illiquid assets with endogenous trading. Using a large sample of 20,538 paintings that were sold repeatedly at auction between 1972 and 2010, we find that paintings with higher price appreciation are more likely...
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In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that are automatically extended if a bid is submitted very...
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We analyze auctions for the settlement of credit default swaps (CDS) theoretically and evaluate them empirically. The requirement to settle in cash with an option to settle physically leads to an unusual two-stage process. In the first stage, participants affect the amount of the bonds to be...
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In 2009, the promise of a comprehensive federal cap and trade bill to address climate change fell apart. At least in part, this was due to the fears that exotic 'carbon' financial instruments might cause more financial crises. As California launches it economy wide carbon trading system, and...
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This paper studies uniform-price auctions for multiple units of airport slots in which the airlines purchase slots for take-off and landing at an airport. It considers strategic behavior on the part of bidding airlines and on the part of airport authority, who acts as a seller and decides supply...
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