Prebidding first-price auctions with and without head starts

Yizhaq Minchuk and Aner Sela

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 91, issue C, 51-55

Abstract: We study the effect of prebidding in first-price auctions with a single prize under incomplete information. The values of the n−1 bidders are private information while bidder 1’s value is commonly known. Bidder 1 places his bid before all the n−1 bidders. We show that regardless of his value, bidder 1 always has a positive effect on the expected highest bid. However, bidder 1’s contribution to the expected highest bid is not significant since the prebidding first-price auction with n bidders may be less profitable than the optimal simultaneous first-price auction with only n−1 bidders. On the other hand, by giving the optimal head start to bidder 1, the prebidding first-price auction is always more profitable than the optimal simultaneous first-price auction with n−1 bidders

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2017.07.001

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