Multi-Unit Open Ascending Price Efficient Auction
Date
01.01.2004
01.01.2004
Authors
Sergei Izmalkov
JEL Code
C72,D44
C72,D44
Keywords:
Multiple units,Interdependent values,Sequential auctions,Ascending price auction
Multiple units,Interdependent values,Sequential auctions,Ascending price auction
Publisher
Economy and Society
Economy and Society
Editor
Fausto Panunzi
Fausto Panunzi
This paper presents an open ascending price mechanism that allocates efficiently M units of the same good among N bidders with interdependent values The mechanism consists of a number of sequential English auctions with reentry and has the following attributes. In each of the individual auctions all the bidders compete simultaneously in the open ascending price format. The most distinctive feature of the mechanism is that winners are determined first, and then additional auxillary auctions are conducted to determine prices. The total number of auctions depends only on the number of goods to be allocated and not on the number of bidders.