Should Auctions be Transparent?
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- Dirk Bergemann & Johannes Horner, 2010. "Should Auctions be Transparent?," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1764R2, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, revised Aug 2017.
- Bergemann, Dirk & Hörner, Johannes, 2010. "Should Auctions Be Transparent?," CEPR Discussion Papers 7989, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Dirk Bergemann & Johannes Horner, 2010. "Should Auctions be Transparent?," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1764, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
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Keywords
First price auction; Repeated auction; Private bids; Information revelation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2014-09-25 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CTA-2014-09-25 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-GTH-2014-09-25 (Game Theory)
- NEP-MIC-2014-09-25 (Microeconomics)
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