Going, Going, Gone! A Swift Tour of Auction Theory and its Applications

Authors
Publication date 2006
Journal De Economist
Volume | Issue number 154 | 2
Pages (from-to) 197-249
Number of pages 53
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract This paper provides a swift tour of auction theory and its applications. Among the questions it considers are: How much do bidders bid in commonly studied single-object auctions? How efficient are these auctions? How much revenue do they generate? Which single-object auction maximizes the seller's expected revenue? What is the best way to auction incentive contracts? And, how efficient and complex are multi-object auctions?
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-006-9002-5
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