A New Payment Rule for Core-Selecting Package Auctions.

We propose a new, easy-to-implement, class of payment rules, "Reference Rules," to make core-selecting package auctions more robust. Small, almost riskless, profitable deviations from "truthful bidding" are often easy for bidders to find under currently-used payment rules. Refere...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erdil, A, Klemperer, P
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: CEPR 2009