Reserve price commitments in auctions

Date

2005

Authors

Menezes, Flavio
Ryan, Matthew

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Elsevier

Abstract

It is well known that the optimal auction-one that maximizes the seller's expected revenue-can be implemented using a standard auction format with a suitably chosen reserve price. This reserve price is above the seller's value of retaining the object and

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Keywords

Keywords: Auction; Bargaining; Commitment; Reserve price

Citation

Source

Economics Letters

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Journal article

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