Ascending Auctions with Package Bidding
Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom
,
1
(
1
)
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
1-42
August
2002
package-bidding-bepress.pdf639.99 KB
Abstract
A family of ascending package auction models is introduced in which bidders may determine their own packages on which to bid. In the proxy auction (revelation game) versions, the outcome is a point in the core of the exchange economy for the reported preferences. When payoffs are linear in money and goods are substitutes, sincere reporting constitutes a Nash equilibrium and the outcome coincides with the Vickrey auction outcome. Even when goods are not substitutes, ascending proxy auction equilibria lie in the core with respect to the true preferences.