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Economics

2010

Economics

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Reserve Prices In A Dynamic Auction When Bidders Are Capacity-Constrained, Viplav Saini Sep 2010

Reserve Prices In A Dynamic Auction When Bidders Are Capacity-Constrained, Viplav Saini

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Allowing for a reserve price in a dynamic auction with capacity-constrained bidders changes the equilibrium in an unexpected way. The distribution of winning bids contains a mass point; several bidder types “bunch” at the reserve price.