Affiliation and Entry in First-Price Auctions

This dissertation studies affiliation and entry in first-price auctions, accomplishing three goals. First, it develops a simple approach to test for affiliation among bidders' private information and applies the approach to the timber sales data in Oregon State. Second, it extends the affiliate...

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Main Author: Zhang, Bingyu
Other Authors: Tong Li
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05152009-235736/