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advertise with a novel model of demand in an auction market environment. Because we explicitly model the process of arrival of …
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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 …
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We analyse how the market design influences the bidding behaviour in multi-unit auctions, such as wholesale electricity markets. It is shown that competition improves for increased market transparency and we identify circumstances where the auctioneer prefers uniform to discriminatory pricing....
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We analyze how market design influences the bidding behavior in multi-unit procurement auctions where suppliers have uncertain costs and are uncertain about the availability of production units, as in wholesale electricity markets. We find that the competitiveness of market outcomes improves...
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We analyse how the market design influences the bidding behavior in multi-unit auctions, such as wholesale electricity markets. It is shown that competition improves for increased market transparency and we identify circumstances where the auctioneer prefers uniform to discriminatory pricing. We...
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' assessments of capacity scarcity. Under symmetric and risk-neutral suppliers, the two auction formats yield the same expected … procurement cost for buyers, but the discriminatory auction results in substantially lower price variance. When suppliers are risk …
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Aftermarket social welfare is largely determined by a procurement auction design. Auctions select firms for operating … aftermarkets, and auctions may also impose restrictions on aftermarket prices the winner can charge. This paper compares … aftermarket social welfare generated by first-price and second-price procurement auctions. It reveals that the social welfare …
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Auctions with endogenous rationing have been introduced to stimulate competition. Such (procurement) auctions reduce the volume put out to tender when competition is low. This paper finds a strong negative effect of endogenous rationing on participation when bid-preparation is costly,...
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I study a principal's optimal choice of constraint for an agent participating in an auction (or auction-like allocation … that the optimal auction with budget-constrained bidders has a standard solution analogous to the one for classic models. …
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We introduce a general class of simplicity standards that vary the foresight abilities required of agents in extensive-form games. Rather than planning for the entire future of a game, agents are presumed to be able to plan only for those histories they view as simple from their current...
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