Auction theory is a branch of applied economics that deals with how bidders act in auctions and researches how the features of auctions incentivise predictable...
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economic theory dealing with auction types and participants' behavior in auctions is called auction theory. The open ascending price auction is arguably...
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A Vickrey auction or sealed-bid second-price auction (SBSPA) is a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the...
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Paul Milgrom (section FCC spectrum auction, 1993)
together with Robert B. Wilson, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". He is the co-creator of the no-trade theorem...
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Reservation price (section Auction theory)
when bidders have preferences as studied in prospect theory. In a newer model of auction theory proposed by Gunay, Meng and Nagelberg (2013), different...
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first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSBA) is a common type of auction. It is also known as blind auction. In this type of auction, all bidders simultaneously...
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"Multiple-Object Auctions" (PDF). In Engelbrecht-Wiggans, R.; Shubik, M.; Stark, R. M. (eds.). Auctions, Bidding, and Contracting: Uses and Theory. New York:...
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An English auction is an open-outcry ascending dynamic auction. It proceeds as follows. The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening...
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A spectrum auction is a process whereby a government uses an auction system to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic...
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Mikhael. "Chinese Auction - Game Theory .net". www.gametheory.net. Retrieved 28 October 2023. "Nothing Chinese about an auction". Lewiston Sun Journal...
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main advisor. Che’s research concerns microeconomic theory, with special focus on markets, auctions, contracts and matching, dynamic information acquisition...
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former student Paul R. Milgrom, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". Two more of his students, Alvin E. Roth and...
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Revenue equivalence (category Auction theory)
Revenue equivalence is a concept in auction theory that states that given certain conditions, any mechanism that results in the same outcomes (i.e. allocates...
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Linkage principle (category Auction theory)
The linkage principle is a finding of auction theory. It states that auction houses have an incentive to pre-commit to revealing all available information...
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A Walrasian auction, introduced by Léon Walras, is a type of simultaneous auction where each agent calculates its demand for the good at every possible...
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A Dutch auction is one of several similar types of auctions for buying or selling goods. Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins...
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multiunit auction is an auction in which several homogeneous items are sold. The units can be sold each at the same price (a uniform price auction) or at...
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and Robert B. Wilson (born 1937) "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats." According to the Nobel Committee, the recognition...
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The term "auction algorithm" applies to several variations of a combinatorial optimization algorithm which solves assignment problems, and network optimization...
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been studied extensively in various contexts, particularly in auctions. In an auction, there are one or more items and one or more agents with different...
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Market design (category Auction theory)
distributed. Milgrom and Weber (1982) present a much more general theory of auctions with positively related values. Each of n buyers receives a private...
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Competitive equilibrium (category Auction theory)
"Combinatorial Auctions / Ascending Auctions". In Nisan, Noam; Roughgarden, Tim; Tardos, Eva; Vazirani, Vijay (eds.). Algorithmic Game Theory (PDF). pp. 289–294...
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In mechanism design and auction theory, a profit extraction mechanism (also called profit extractor or revenue extractor) is a truthful mechanism whose...
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Benny Moldovanu (section Research on auctions)
Economic Theory II at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on applied game theory, auction theory, mechanism design, contests and matching theory, and...
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auction theory work". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2023-10-09. "Jewish American Paul Milgrom shares Nobel Prize in economics for auction theory discoveries"...
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Winner's curse (category Auction theory)
Proteus phenomenon War of attrition (game) Pyrrhic victory Vickrey auction Auction theory Paul Milgrom Robert B. Wilson Thaler, Richard (1988), "Anomalies:...
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topics in industrial organisation, economic theory, auction theory, communications in games and vote theory. Krishna is married and has two children. Journal...
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Regular distribution (economics) (category Auction theory)
Myerson's regularity, is a property of probability distributions used in auction theory and revenue management. Examples of distributions that satisfy this...
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Border's theorem (category Auction theory)
In auction theory and mechanism design, Border's theorem gives a necessary and sufficient condition for interim allocation rules (or reduced form auctions)...
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An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected...
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