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Auctions with endogenous valuations: the snowball effect revisited

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  • Kala Krishna

    (Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA)

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This paper looks at the determination of ownership of capacity when there are two ex-ante symmetric agents bidding for many units of capacity which are sold sequentially. It is shown that convexity of payoffs in the final stage of the game is sufficient to ensure monopolization of capacity, but that increasing returns to scale are not sufficient to ensure monopolization.

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  • Kala Krishna, 1999. "Auctions with endogenous valuations: the snowball effect revisited," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 13(2), pages 377-391.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:13:y:1999:i:2:p:377-391
    Note: Received: March 14, 1997; revised version: December 1, 1997
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