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, it is relevant to analyze the potential of coordinated bidding. We consider a Nordic power producer who engages in the … unknown at the time of bidding. However, in the balancing market, the market participant faces an additional risk of not being … formulate the bidding problem as a multi-stage stochastic program. We investigate whether higher risk exposure may cause …
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The Australian energy market has developed in response to two sets of government decisions. The first was a policy of the Victorian Government to sell its state-owned electricity supply system and to do so in a way that introduced competition wherever this was possible. At the same time, the...
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This paper presents an equilibrium explanation for the persistence of naive bidding. Specifically, we consider a common …
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Name-your-own-price (NYOP) retailers, such as Priceline, offer an alternative distribution channel for service providers in the travel industry such as airlines, hotels, and car rental companies. Our research employs an analytical model to identify and understand key trade-offs driving the...
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The price at which a real property is sold depends on the initial asking price, the distribution of potential bids for the property by interested buyers, the quality and intensity of the advertising message, and the manner in which the initial asking price is revised if the property is not...
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The issue of maintaining competition over time in a repeated procurement setting is important for both government and private sector buyers. The U.S. Department of Defense has experimented with splitting production quantities between two or more contractors in an effort to make government...
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and laboratory auctions to explore how the frequency of changes in the threshold price impacts consumer bidding behavior … the probability of a price change is moderate, consumers may have an incentive to use nonmonotonic bidding patterns … nonmonotonic bidding patterns. Interestingly, impatient bidders are more likely to decrease their bids at some point in the bid …
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Concurrent auctions of several objects are traditionally analyzed as if they were independent single-object auctions. Such an approximation may be very crude if bidders have budgetary restrictions, capacity constraints, or, in general, have non-linear utility functions. This paper presents a...
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Internet-enabled markets are becoming viable venues for procurement of professional services. We investigate bidding … theoretical model that relates market characteristics to bidding and transaction behavior, taking into account costly bidding. We … 30%--40% of posted projects. In its current format, however, the studied market may induce excessive bidding by vendors …
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