Several important auction settings, including treasury auctions in Canada and the U.S., have the feature that some bidders (dealers) observe the bids of a subset of other bidders (customers). Quantifying the economic advantage that informationally advantaged bidders derive from this...

I analyze a model of a private value divisible good auction with different payment rules, standard rationing rule pro-rata on-the-margin and both with and without a restriction on the number of bids (steps) bidders can submit. I provide characterization of equilibrium bidding strategies in a...

We develop a test for common values in treasury bill auction. The test is based on different bidding dynamics within an auction under the two competing models. Bidders who obtain information about rivals' bids in the private values model use this information only to update their prior on the...