Auction design with data-driven misspecifications: Inefficiency in private value auctions with correlation
Article dans une revue: We study the existence of efficient auctions in private value settings in which some bidders form their expectations about the distribution of their competitor’s bids based on the accessible data from past similar auctions consisting of bids and expost values. We consider steady states in such environments with a mix of rational and data-driven bidders, and we allow for correlation across bidders in the signal distributions about the ex post values. After reviewing the working of the approach in second-price and first-price auctions, we establish our main result that there is no efficient auction in such environments.
Auteur(s)
Philippe Jehiel, Konrad Mierendorff
Revue
- Theoretical Economics
Date de publication
- 2024
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Belief formation
- Auctions
- Efficiency
- Analogy-based expectations
Pages
- 1543-1579
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 19