2020
DOI: 10.1007/s00182-020-00710-8
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Information disclosure by a seller in sequential first-price auctions

Abstract: I study sequential first-price auctions where two items are sold to two bidders with private binary valuations. A seller, prior to the second auction, can publicly disclose some information about the outcome of the first auction. I characterize equilibrium strategies for various disclosure rules when the valuations of bidders are either perfectly positively or perfectly negatively correlated across items. I establish outcome equivalence between different disclosure rules. I find that it is optimal for the sell… Show more

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“…Corazzini et al [46] study the sequential reverse auction where each bidder's capacity is unknown to the auctioneer. Also, some studies [47], [48], [49] focus on a particular case where the sequential auction is with only two items or two bidders. Drutsa [50] presents an online learning algorithm for the repeated second-price auction with reserve where strategic bidders repeatedly participate in auctions and the seller needs to determine reserve prices in each round based on the previous information for maximizing her long-term revenue.…”
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“…Corazzini et al [46] study the sequential reverse auction where each bidder's capacity is unknown to the auctioneer. Also, some studies [47], [48], [49] focus on a particular case where the sequential auction is with only two items or two bidders. Drutsa [50] presents an online learning algorithm for the repeated second-price auction with reserve where strategic bidders repeatedly participate in auctions and the seller needs to determine reserve prices in each round based on the previous information for maximizing her long-term revenue.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Auctions with different disclosure policies are also studied in, for example, Lebrun (2010), Fan et al (2016), Bergemann and Hörner (2018), and Azacis (2020). …”
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“…Note that, in general, a bidder's private valuation can reflect, for example, purchasing power, a taste for art, generosity, profitability prospects, expected market penetration, or a combination of such factors. To keep the model as simple and generic as possible, we disregard how these qualities map into a private valuation, and how the receiver seeks to reverse this mapping to form beliefs about these ultimate qualities from the auction outcome.5Auctions with different disclosure policies are also studied in, for example,Lebrun (2010),Fan et al (2016),Bergemann andHörner (2018), andAzacis (2020).6…”
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