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Competitive Selection and Information Aggregation in Auctions
Do more competitive auctions better aggregate private information? Suppose n identical objects are offered for sale to k symmetric bidders with interdependent values. Do the n winning bids reveal more information about the state of demand for these objects when the number of bidders k rises? We find that competition decreases information if bidders’ private signals have a log-submodular reverse hazard rate function – overturning received wisdom. When private signals derive from a location family, and only one object is for sale (n=1), competition harms information aggregation if and only if the signal’s noise component follows a distribution which is less convex than Gumbel’s extreme value distribution. Drawing on extreme value theory, we quantify the amount of information in the perfectly competitive limit.
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Date:
23 October 2020, 14:15
Venue:
Held on Zoom
Speaker:
Peter Norman Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Melis Clark
