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We investigate experimentally on eBay how sellers set prices in "Buy-It-Now" (BIN) auctions. We find that the eBay format leads to prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Moreover, our results reveal that the information available on eBay about buyer experience and...
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This paper compares the incentives of a party to acquire information prior to negotiating contractual terms with a … power, the incentives to acquire information will be excessive relative to first best quite generally. Otherwise, more … surprisingly, acquisition incentives turn out insufficient even under voluntary disclosure for an informational setting referred to …
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We derive the optimal incentive compatible and individually rational mechanisms to reallocate arbitrary given ownership shares among a set of agents. These mechanisms are optimal in the sense that they maximize social surplus of the final allocation subject to the aforementioned constraints and...
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We analyze the infuence of the number of competitors, the costs of doping and the distribution of talents on the doping behavior. In an n-player strategic game modelled as an all-pay auction, the players have private information about their talent and the amount of doping. The main finding of...
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Global games are widely used for equilibrium selection to predict behaviour in complete information games with strategic complementarities. We establish two results on the global game selection. First we show that it is independent of the payoff functions of the global game embedding, though (as...
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This paper studies optimal auction design when the seller can affect the buyers' valuations through an unobservable ex ante investment. The key insight is that the optimal mechanism may have the seller play a mixed investment strategy so as to create correlation between the otherwise...
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and insurance markets affect incentives to invest in human capital? If so, should the state provide transfers to the poor …
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Motivated by trying to better understand the norms that govern pedestrian traffic, I study symmetric two-player coordination games with independent private values. The strategies of "always pass on the left" and "always pass on the right" are always equilibria of this game. Some such games,...
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, such as student or sports associations, is not positively correlated with contributions. In a prediction experiment with … differences in subjects’ willingness to cooperate. Thus, young professionals signal important behavioral characteristics to …
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