Showing 1 - 10 of 15,337
This paper examines bidding behavior in a setting where post-bid-letting project modifications occur. These modifications change both the costs and payouts to the winning contractor, making the contract incomplete. Recent empirical research shows that bidders incorporate the likelihood of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397241
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001833591
This paper studies sequential auctions of licences to participate in a symmetric market game. Assuming that the rate at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005370851
Over their two years of existence since deregulation began, the electricity markets operated by the California Power Exchange [PX] and Independent System Operator [ISO] have often seen wide price fluctuations and numerous episodes of prices clearly above marginal costs of generation. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140596
This paper examines bidding behavior in a setting where post-bid-letting project modifications occur. These modifications change both the costs and payouts to the winning contractor, making the contract incomplete. Recent empirical research shows that bidders incorporate the likelihood of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048906
We develop tests for common values at first-price sealed-bid auctions. Our tests are nonparametric, require observation … values auctions. The tests build on recently developed methods for using observed bids to estimate each bidder's conditional … different types of U.S. Forest Service timber auctions. For unit-price ("scaled") sales often argued to fit a private values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072657
This paper considers how a publisher should set reserve prices for real-time bidding (RTB) auctions when selling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343903
We show that, under independent private values, no mechanism that contains a right-of-first-refusal clause can maximize the sum of the utilities of the seller and the right-holder.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110856
Many important economic questions arising in auctions can be answered only with knowledge of the underlying primitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990722
We analyze the evolution of the price of paintings in London auctions with a unique dataset of over 200,000 sales in … the characteristics of auctions and paintings and for the artists' fixed effects. The emergence of an efficient secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540862