Li, Tong; Perrigne, Isabelle - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (2003) 1, pp. 189-200
This paper analyzes first-price sealed-bid auctions of standing timber organized by the French forest service, Office National des Forêts (ONF). A feature of these auctions is that they are held with random reserve prices. We consider an auction model with a random reserve price within the...