Strategic Leaks in First-Price Auctions and Tacit Collusion: The Case of Spying and Counter-Spying
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Keywords
auctions; tacit collusion; espionage; second-mover advantage; signaling; incomplete information;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L12 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2021-05-03 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-DES-2021-05-03 (Economic Design)
- NEP-GTH-2021-05-03 (Game Theory)
- NEP-IND-2021-05-03 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2021-05-03 (Microeconomics)
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