Auction Design with Advised Bidders

This paper studies efficient and optimal auction design where bidders do not know their values and solicit advice from informed but biased advisors via a cheap-talk game. When advisors are biased toward overbidding, we characterize efficient equilibria of static auctions and equilibria of the Englis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tsoy, Anton, Malenko, Andrey
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: ACM 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120724
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6429-850X