Beschreibung:
This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys. Focusing on practical examples, this textbook offers over 80 exercises that predict bidders' equilibrium behaviour in different auction formats, along with the seller's strategic incentives to organize one auction format over the other. The book emphasizes game-theoretic tools, so students can apply similar tools to other auction formats. Also included are several exercises based on published articles, with the model reduced to its main elements and the question divided into several easy-to-answer parts. Little mathematical background in algebra and calculus is assumed, and most algebraic steps and simplifications are provided, making the text ideal for upper undergraduate and graduate students.
Chapter 1: Second-price auctions.- Chapter 2: First-price auctions.- Chapter 3: First-price auctions, Extensions.- Chapter 4: All-pay auctions and auctions with asymmetrically informed bidders.- Chapter 5: Third-price auctions, kth-price auctions, and lotteries.- Chapter 6: The Revenue Equivalence principle.- Chapter 7: Common-value auctions.- Chapter 8: Multi-unit auctions.- Chapter 9: Mechanism design.- Chapter 10: Procurement auctions.- Game Theory Appendix.- References.