Behaviorally Optimal Auction Design: Examples and Observations.

This paper begins to explore behavioral mechanism design, replacing equilibrium by a model based on “level-k” thinking, which has strong support in experiments. In representative examples, we consider optimal sealed-bid auctions with two symmetric bidders who have independent private values, assumin...

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Main Authors: Crawford, V, Kugler, T, Neeman, Z, Pauzner, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press 2009