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Product-Mix Auctions

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This paper adds new material, including about implementations of the product-mix auction and more detail about the bidding languages, to Klemperer (2008) [see next page for details]. Software (pro bono) to run several versions of product-mix auctions is now available at http://pma.nuff.ox.ac.uk.

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  • Klemperer, Paul, 2019. "Product-Mix Auctions," CEPR Discussion Papers 13667, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    Keywords

    Auction; Multi-object auction; Multi-product auction; Geometric bidding language; Bidding language; Bank of england; Simultaneous ascending auction; Simultaneous multiple round auction; Product mix auction; Product-mix auction;
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    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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