Ranking asymmetric auctions

Arieh Gavious, Yizhaq Minchuk

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Abstract

We compare the expected revenue in first- and second-price auctions with asymmetric bidders. We consider "close to uniform" distributions with identical supports and show that in the case of identical supports the expected revenue in second-price auctions may exceed that in first-price auctions. We also show that asymmetry over lower valuations has a stronger negative impact on the expected revenue in first-price auctions than in second-price auctions. However, asymmetry over high valuations always increases the revenue in first-price auctions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-393
Number of pages25
JournalInternational Journal of Game Theory
Volume43
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014

Keywords

  • Asymmetric auctions
  • Perturbation analysis
  • Ranking auctions
  • Revenue equivalence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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