PUTTING AUCTION THEORY TO WORK by Paul Milgrom ( 9780521536721 )

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PUTTING AUCTION THEORY TO WORK

By:

Paul Milgrom

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0521536723

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9780521536721

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 January, 2004

Series:

Churchill Lectures in Economics

Pages:

396

Description:

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications.

Synopsis:

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications. It is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided the creation of the new spectrum auction designs. Aimed at graduate students and professionals in economics, the book gives the most up-to-date treatments of both traditional theories of 'optimal auctions' and newer theories of multi-unit auctions and package auctions, and shows by example how these theories are used. The analysis explores the limitations of prominent older designs, such as the Vickrey auction design, and evaluates the practical responses to those limitations. It explores the tension between the traditional theory of auctions with a fixed set of bidders, in which the seller seeks to squeeze as much revenue as possible from the fixed set, and the theory of auctions with endogenous entry, in which bidder profits must be respected to encourage participation.

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8 b/w illus. 4 tables

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