Charity auctions for the happy few [presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2008, Workshop on "Advances in the Theory of Contests and its Applications"]
Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider a f...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Munich
Univ., Center for Economic Studies
2008
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| Schriftenreihe: | CESifo working paper series Public choice
2398 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider a framework with complete information. This analysis is relevant for two main reasons. On the one hand, complete information is more realistic and corresponds to events which occur for instance in a local service club (like in a voluntary organization) or in a show business dinner. Potential bidders are acquaintances or know one another well. On the other hand, our model keeps the qualitative predictions of a private value model under incomplete information in which bidders are ex ante asymmetric, which means that bidders' values are drawn from different distributions. Furthermore, we also analyze second-price all-pay auction. Finally, we show that individual minimum bids could improve the relative revenue performance of first-price all-pay compared to first-price winner-pay auction. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 24 |
| Beschreibung: | 24 S. graph. Darst. |