Cao, Xiaoyong; Tian, Guoqiang - In: Games and Economic Behavior 69 (2010) 2, pp. 258-273
This paper characterizes the equilibria of first price auctions with participation costs in the independent private values environment. Bidders use cutoff strategies to decide whether they will participate in the auction. It is shown that, when bidders are homogeneous, there always exists a...