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Auctions for government securities : A laboratory comparison of uniform, discriminatory and Spanish designs

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  • Klaus Abbink

    (UON - University of Nottingham, UK)

  • Jordi Brandts

    (IAE - Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica - UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

  • Paul Pezanis-Christou

    (IAE - Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica - UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Abstract

The Bank of Spain uses a unique auction format to sell government bonds that can be seen as a hybrid of a uniform and a discriminatory auction. For winning bids above the average winning bid, buyers are charged the average winning bid; otherwise they pay their respective bids. We use experiments to compare this auction format to the discriminatory format used in most other countries and to the uniform format. Our design is based on a common value model with multi-unit supply and 2-unit demand. The Spanish and the uniform auctions raise significantly higher revenue than the discriminatory auction.

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  • Klaus Abbink & Jordi Brandts & Paul Pezanis-Christou, 2008. "Auctions for government securities : A laboratory comparison of uniform, discriminatory and Spanish designs," Post-Print hal-00279192, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00279192
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.12.007
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    JEL classification:

    • C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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