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When are Auctions Best?
- Abstract:
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We compare the two most common bidding processes for selling a company or other asset when participation is costly to buyers. In an auction all entry decisions are made prior to any bidding. In a sequential bidding process earlier entrants can make bids before later entrants choose whether to compete. The sequential process is more efficient because entrants base their decisions on superior information. But pre-emptive bids transfer surplus from the seller to buyers. Because the auction is mo...
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- Publisher:
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Volume:
- 13268
- Series:
- NBER Working Papers
- Host title:
- NBER Working Papers
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
- Paper number:
- 13268
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:12006
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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