Experiments as Instruments: Heterogeneous Position Effects in Sponsored Search Auctions

Google and Bing employ a generalized second price (GSP) auction to allocate billions of dollars of sponsored search advertising. Despite evolving from a naive, first-price, rank-by-bid auction, the GSP has been shown to achieve an efficient allocation and favorable revenue properties via a tight the...

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Main Authors: Matthew Goldman, Justin Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2016-12-01
Series:EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games
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Online Access:http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.8-8-2015.2261043