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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"first-price auctions"”.
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Estimating Auction Equilibria using Individual Evolutionary Learning
… to estimate equilibria bidding functions in auctions. I show it produces highly accurate estimates across a large class of auction environments with known solutions. I then apply GENEE to estimate the equilibria of two additional auctions with no known solutions: first-price sealed-bid common …
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ONLINE LEARNING METHODS FOR DIGITAL MARKETS
… present an analysis of transparency in repeated first-price auctions. Here, the learner participates in a sequence of first-price auctions to win objects whose exact value is revealed only when she wins the corresponding auction. We show how the level of transparency of the auctioneer (i.e., the …
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Online Auctions with Multiple Items
… recent 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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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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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Applying Prospect theory to Auctions
… of reference-dependent preferences in sealed-bid auctions. In the first part, I develop a Prospect theory based model to explain bidding in first-price auctions. I show that bidding in induced-value first-price sealed-bid auctions can be rationalized as a combination of reactions to underlying …
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Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments
The first chapter discusses procurement auction mechanisms under the political constraint that the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate abnormally low bids in order to reduce the probability of ex-post bid …