Finding and retaining the dominant strategy: The second-price, English and ‘sealed offer’ English auctions |
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Authors: | John C Bernard |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Food and Resource Economics, University of Delaware, 229 Townsend Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA |
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Abstract: | Using experiments in a procurement setting, this study examined the performance abilities of three auctions: the second-price, English, and a new ‘sealed offer’ English. Additionally, to see if dominant strategy learning would be transferred, after fifteen periods with one of the three auctions, all subjects completed a second 15 periods with the second-price auction. The English auction performed best overall. However, only limited learning was found to occur, with some subjects that had adopted the dominant strategy in the English switching in the second-price. Lessons from the new mechanism transferred better, but initial learning of the dominant strategy was slower. |
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Keywords: | Auctions Experiments |
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