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Auctions: Theory and practice
Published 2004“…Includes an elementary, nontechnical survey of auction theory. Other papers discuss why every economist should learn some auction theory; what really matters in auction design; the use and abuse of auction theory; the 3G mobile-phone license auctions held in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, and Denmark; how economists designed the U.K. 3G mobile-phone license auction; bidder strategies in the British and German 3G telecom auctions; and whether auctions were a good idea. …”
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Auctions: Theory and Practice.
Published 2004“…This book is a non-technical introduction to auction theory; its practical application in auction design (including many examples); and its uses in other parts of economics. …”
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Applying Auction Theory to Economics.
Published 2000“…We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and "standard" economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful arguments and insights in a broad range of mainstream economic settings that do not, at first sight, look like auctions. …”
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Applying auction theory to economics
Published 2000“…We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and standard economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful arguments and insights in a broad range of mainstream economic settings that do not, at first sight, look like auctions. …”
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Auction Theory: a Guide to the Literature.
Published 1999“…This paper provides an elementary, non-technical, survey of auction theory, by introducing and describing some of the critical papers in the subject. …”
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Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature.
Published 1999“…This paper provides an elementary, non-technical, survey of auction theory, by introducing and describing some of the critical papers in the subject. …”
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Auction Theory: a Guide to the Literature.
Published 1999“…This paper, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Surveys, provides an elementary non-technical, survey of auction theory, by introducing and describing some of the critical papers in the subject. …”
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Why every Economist should Learn some Auction Theory.
Published 2000“…We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and 'standard' economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful argument and insights in a broad range of mainstream economic settings that do not, at first sight, look like auctions. …”
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Auctions versus Negotiations.
Published 1996“…The paper also shows how the analogies between monopoly theory and auction theory can help derive new results in auction theory.…”
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Three essays on auctions
Published 2022“…<p><b>The importance of being discrete: on the (in-)accuracy of continuous approximations in auction theory</b></p> <p>While auction theory views bids and valuations as continuous variables, real-world auctions are necessarily discrete. …”
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Discovering auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Published 2021“…Wilson for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”. …”
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The economic theory of auctions.
Published 2000“…The thirty-two papers of volume one present early and recent literature on auction theory; the basic analysis of optimal auctions, revenue equivalence, and marginal revenues; risk aversion; correlation and affiliation; asymmetries; entry costs, and the number of bidders; and collusion. …”
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Rational Frenzies and Crashes.
Published 1994“…The paper also shows how a result from static auction theory, the revenue equivalence theorem, can be applied to solve for a dynamic price path.…”
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