Auction Design with Advised Bidders

This paper studies efficient and optimal auction design where bidders do not know their values and solicit advice from informed but biased advisors via a cheap-talk game. When advisors are biased toward overbidding, we characterize efficient equilibria of static auctions and equilibria of the Englis...

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Main Authors: Andrey Malenko, Anton Tsoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2016-12-01
Series:EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games
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Online Access:http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.8-8-2015.2260860