Auction Design with Advised Bidders

This paper studies efficient and optimal auction design where bidders do not know their values and solicit advice from informed but biased advisors via a cheap-talk game. When advisors are biased toward overbidding, we characterize efficient equilibria of static auctions and equilibria of the Englis...

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Main Authors: Tsoy, Anton (Author), Malenko, Andrey (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACM, 2019-03-05T15:12:25Z.
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