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A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by quality and …
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We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for …
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We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for …
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The literature on license auctions for process innovations in oligopoly assumed that the auctioneer reveals the winning …, partial, and no disclosure of bids, which correspond to standard auctions. We show that more information disclosure increases …
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Inspired by some spectrum auctions, we consider a stylized license auction with incumbents and one entrant. Whereas the …
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profitable than standard license auctions, auctioning royalty contracts, fixed-fee licensing, pure royalty licensing, and two …
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If bidders are uncertain whether the auctioneer sticks to the announced reserve, some bidders respond by not bidding, speculating that the auctioneer may revoke the reserve. However, the reserve inadvertently signals the auctioneer's type, which drives a unique separating and a multitude of...
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licensing without reducing bidders' surplus; therefore, it is more profitable than both standard license auctions and pure …
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A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents, in the presence of … outperform all other auctions, although it cannot extract the entire surplus implement efficient effort. Hence, profit sharing …
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