Optimal strategies for bidding agents participating in simultaneous Vickrey auctions with perfect substitutes

We derive optimal strategies for a bidding agent that participates in multiple, simultaneous second-price auctions with perfect substitutes. We prove that, if everyone else bids locally in a single auction, the global bidder should always place non-zero bids in all available auctions, provided there...

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Main Authors: Gerding, Enrico (Author), Dash, Rajdeep (Author), Byde, Andrew (Author), Jennings, Nick (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2008-08-08.
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