Arbeitspapier

Correlated equilibria and communication equilibria in all-pay auctions

We study cheap-talk pre-play communication in the static all-pay auctions. For the case of two bidders, all correlated and communication equilibria are payoff equivalent to the Nash equilibrium if there is no reserve price, or if it is commonly known that one bidder has a strictly higher value. Hence, in such environments the Nash equilibrium predictions are robust to preplay communication between the bidders. If there are three or more symmetric bidders, or two symmetric bidders and a positive reserve price, then there may exist correlated and communication equilibria such that the bidders' payoffs are higher than in the Nash equilibrium. In these cases, pre-play cheap talk may affect the outcomes of the game, since the bidders have an incentive to coordinate on such equilibria.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Research Report ; No. 2013-2

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Auctions
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
Thema
Communication
Collusion
All-pay auctions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pavlov, Gregory
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
(wo)
London (Ontario)
(wann)
2013

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pavlov, Gregory
  • The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2013

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