Strategic Jump Bidding in English Auctions

Christopher N. Avery

Review of Economic Studies, 1998, vol. 65, issue 2, pages 185-210

Abstract: This paper solves for equilibria of sequential bid (or English) auctions with affiliated values when jump bidding strategies may be employed to intimidate one's opponents. In these equilibria, jump bids serve as correlating devices which select asymmetric bidding functions to be played subsequently. Each possibility of jump bidding provides a Pareto improvement for the bidders from the symmetric equilibrium of a sealed bid, second-price auction. The expanded set of equilibria can approximate either first or second-price outcomes and produce exactly the set of expected prices between those two bounds. These results contrast with standard conclusions that equate English and second-price auctions. Copyright 1998 by The Review of Economic Studies Limited.

Date: 1998
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