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Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan

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  • Ausubel Lawrence M
  • Cramton Peter

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The details of the auction design could make or break the Treasury's plan to invest $700 billion in mortgage-related securities to resolve the financial crisis, using market mechanisms such as reverse auctions to determine prices, according to Lawrence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton.

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  • Ausubel Lawrence M & Cramton Peter, 2008. "Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 5(5), pages 1-3, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:5:y:2008:i:5:n:5
    DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1415
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    1. Satoru Fujishige & Zaifu Yang, 2020. "A Universal Dynamic Auction for Unimodular Demand Types: An Efficient Auction Design for Various Kinds of Indivisible Commodities," Discussion Papers 20/08, Department of Economics, University of York.
    2. Hillinger, Claude, 2008. "How to deal with the US financial crisis at no cost to the taxpayer," Discussion Papers in Economics 6929, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
    3. Edoardo Gaffeo & Ronny Mazzocchi, 2019. "“The price is right”: using auction theory to enhance competition in the NPL market," Journal of Banking Regulation, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 20(1), pages 104-112, March.
    4. Lawrence M. Ausubel & Peter Cramton, 2008. "A Troubled Asset Reverse Auction," Papers of Peter Cramton 08tara, University of Maryland, Department of Economics - Peter Cramton, revised 2008.

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    JEL classification:

    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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