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Auctions, Equilibria, and Budgets
… algorithms for revenue-optimal truthful auctions. When the items are homogeneous, we give an efficient algorithm whose outcome defines a truthful and Pareto-optimal auction. Finally, we focus on the notion of "competitive equilibrium", which is a well known solution concept for market …
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Essays on optimal auctions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Three Essays on Procurement Auctions
This thesis is an empirical study of procurement auctions. First, I explore how varying the timing of a sequence of auctions affects both bidder behaviour and the welfare of procurers and bidders. We develop a structural auction model with endogenous participation in which bidding may be …
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Essays on Multi-Object Auctions
The second chapter considers an auctioneer faced with a decision as whether to bundle two or more different objects before selling them. Under a Vickrey auction rule there is a unique critical number for each pair of objects such that when the number of bidders is fewer than that number the seller …
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Buyout prices in online auctions
… ends. Buyout options are widely used in online auctions and have significant economic importance: nearly half of the auctions today are listed with a buyout price and the option is exercised in nearly one fourth of them. We formulate a game-theoretic model featuring time-sensitive bidders with …
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Online Auctions with Multiple Items
… switch of online ad exchanges from second-price auctions to firstprice auctions, this thesis studies computational problems related to how an advertiser can select bids to maximize her cumulative reward when participating in a sequence of single-item f irst-price auctions, or a sequence of …
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Two topics in online auctions
… two operations management topics in online auctions, and is divided into two parts. Motivated by the increasing use of ShopBots to scan Internet auctions, the first part of the thesis analytically examines whether or not two competing auctioneers selling the same commodity should share, or …
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Essays on Auctions in Financial Markets
This thesis studies the design of auctions used in financial markets. The first chapter studies the market for Credit Default Swaps (CDS), which are financial derivative products that insure bond investors against default. Determining their payout is complicated because the volume of insurance is …
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
This thesis studies issues in auctions and contests. The seller of an object and the organizer of a contest have many instruments to improve the revenue of the auction or the efficiency of the contest. The three essays in this dissertation shed light on these issues. Chapter 2 investigates how a …
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Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions
… effects of a hybrid mechanism (buy-it-now auctions) eBay offers. I find that the existence of buy-it-now auctions increases the consumer surplus and reduces the producer surplus. The reason for this is that buy-it-now auctions diminish sellers' potential for diversification via mechanism …
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Essays on Electricity and Sequential Auctions
… asymmetry of firm sizes. The essay on sequential auctions studies how to set the optimal starting price in online auctions. The distinctive characteristic of online auctions is that a seller can resell an item that failed to sell at earlier auctions to a new set of buyers. The existing literature …
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Essays on auctions and mechanism design
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-15 at 11:49.
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Novel frameworks for auctions and optimization
… novel frameworks for modeling uncertainty in auctions. This enables us to provide robust analysis to alternative specifications of preferences and information structures in Vickrey and VCG auctions. Part II introduces novel frameworks for understanding first-order methods in optimization. This …
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Transportation service procurement using combinatorial auctions
… of different assets are called combinatorial auctions. With shipper being the auctioneer and carriers being the bidders, combinatorial auction has become increasingly important in the transportation service procurement domain, due to its mechanism to align shipper s procurement interest with …
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Essays on auctions, contests, and games
… organization, with a focus on contests and auctions, and game theory. Chapter 1 develops a new model of multistage R&D procurement contests, in which firms conduct research over a number of stages to develop an innovative product and then supply it to a procurer. I show that the primitives …
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… similar goods are often sold in a sequence of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both experimental and econometric …
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Essays in auctions and credit markets
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Spectrum Auctions for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
We examine the problem of designing an auction-based market mechanism for dynamic spectrum sharing when there are multiple sellers and multiple buyers. We assume that the sellers are selfish players and focus on an optimal auction mechanism that maximizes the expected payoff or profit of the …
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Auctions with Variable Supply and Competing Auctioneers
… with equilibrium bidding in variable supply auctions – trade mechanisms in which a monopoly seller determines supply in view of the received bids. These trade mechanisms are used in a variety of economic contexts, e.g. financial markets for Treasury bills and Initial Public Offerings. The …
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Revenue analysis of auctions over social networks
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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