Collusive communication schemes in a first-price auction

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Helmuts Āzacis, Péter Vida]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Economic Theory, 58/1(2015-01-01), 125-160
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a We study optimal bidder collusion in an independent private value first-price auction with two bidders and two possible valuations. There is a benevolent center that knows the bidders' valuations and sends private signals to the bidders in order to maximize their expected payoffs. After receiving their signals, bidders compete in a standard first-price auction, that is, without side payments or bid restrictions. We find that to improve on the bidders' payoffs, the signals must depend upon the valuations. If the bidders' signals are restricted to be non-correlated (depend only on the opponent's valuation), then the bidders' payoffs are strictly higher than the larger possible set of signals. If the signals are restricted to be perfectly correlated (public), only two possible signals are needed to achieve the highest bidder payoffs. However, these payoffs can be improved upon if the two signals are allowed to be imperfectly correlated. 
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690 7 |a Bidder-optimal signal structure  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Bid coordination mechanism  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Collusion  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a (Bayes) correlated equilibrium  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a First-price auction  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Public and private signals  |2 nationallicence 
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700 1 |a Vida  |D Péter  |u Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, L7, 3-5, 68131, Mannheim, Germany  |4 aut 
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