BRUSCO, S; LOPOMO, G, BUDGET CONSTRAINTS AND DEMAND REDUCTION IN SIMULTANEOUS ASCENDING-BID AUCTIONS -super-* ,
The Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 56 no. 1
(March, 2008),
pp. 113-142
(last updated on 2025/04/11)
Abstract: The possibility, even if arbitrarily
small, of binding budget constraints in simultaneous ascending bid
auctions induces strategic demand reduction and generates significant
inefficiencies. Under mild conditions on the distributions of the bidders'
values, unconstrained bidders behave as if they were liquidity
constrained, even as the probability that bidders are budget constrained
goes to zero. Copyright 2008 The Authors.