Endogenous entry in first-price auctions

This thesis studies the first-price auction models with endogenous entry. In the first chapter, we propose using the nearest neighbor estimation technique to estimate the entry cost in the auction models. We study the large sample properties of the proposed estimator to establish sets of conditio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xu, Pai
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5639