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in auction volume the result is extended to environments with risk averse bidders. In an illustrative application we fail …
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When a consumer uses a search engine such as Google, her decision to purchase from an advertisement is influenced by other ads displayed on the search page. This externality makes the advertiser's per Ad click profit depend on the set of other ads visible to the consumer. This paper studies the...
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In first-price sealed-bid auctions, a power probability weighting function is observationally equivalent to a model of constant absolute risk aversion. By comparing auctions with different ceilings on a computerized opponent’s bid space, we can separate subjective probability weighting and...
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We develop a model where two players with asymmetric preferences engage in a contest game. The key novelty is the introduction of multi-dimensional rewards. We characterize the optimal prize allocation that maximizes aggregate effort. When heterogeneity in preferences is strong and the designer...
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This paper analyzes risk aversion in discriminatory share auctions. I generalize the k-step share auction model of …
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If bidders are better informed than the seller about a common component of auction heterogeneity, the seller can …-price auction under unobserved auction heterogeneity-imperfectly observed by the seller-that captures this rationale and derive … perfect information about unobserved auction heterogeneity would increase surplus by 5.22%. Combining a secret reserve price …
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This paper analyzes a discriminatory share auction in which bidders submit non-increasing step functions with a bounded …
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) resolves insolvent banks using an auction process in which bidding is … mechanism could be improved. To do so, we propose a methodology for analyzing auction environments where bids are ranked …
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overbidding puzzle, but no canonical alternative to RNBNE has emerged, and RNBNE remains the basis of the structural auction …
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buyers operate under uncertainty, without full information about auction results, purchasing preferences, and strategies of …
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