Putting auction theory to work /

A comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its applications. 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 auct...

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Main Author: Milgrom, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Series:Churchill lectures in economics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Getting to work
  • Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanisms
  • The envelope theorem and payoff equivalence
  • Bidding equilibrium and revenue differences
  • Interdependence of types and values
  • Auctions in context
  • Uniform price auctions
  • Package auctions and combinatorial bidding.