Arbeitspapier

Optimal auctions with financially constrained bidders

We consider an environment where potential buyers of an indivisible good have liquidity constraints, in that they cannot pay more than their `budget' regardless of their valuation. A buyer's valuation for the good as well as her budget are her private information. We derive constrained-e±cient and revenue maximizing auctions for this setting. In general, the optimal auction requires `pooling' both at the top and in the middle despite the maintained assumption of a monotone hazard rate. Further, the auctioneer will never ¯nd it desirable to subsidize bidders with low budgets.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 1471

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Auctions
Thema
optimal auction
budget constraints
Auktionstheorie
Budgetrestriktion
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pai, Mallesh
Vohra, Rakesh V.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science
(wo)
Evanston, IL
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pai, Mallesh
  • Vohra, Rakesh V.
  • Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science

Entstanden

  • 2008

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