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Decision-Analytic Approach to Knockout Auctions

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  • Yigal Gerchak

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 69978)

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Society seems to have developed several ingenious schemes for allocating jointly owned indivisible items. One such scheme, occasionally used to divide estates among heirs, is a knockout auction (Engelbrecht-Wiggans 1994). In a knockout auction, the joint owners bid for the item; the highest bidder obtains it and pays the others their share of the winning bid. This paper follows the advice of Raiffa and Rothkopf to view auctions from a decision-analytic point of view, and analyzes the optimal bid of an expected-utility maximizing participant in a knockout auction who is uncertain about the bids of others, and contrasts it to the properties of optimal declarations in buy-sell agreements, derived in Gerchak and Fuller (1992).

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  • Yigal Gerchak, 2008. "Decision-Analytic Approach to Knockout Auctions," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 5(1), pages 19-21, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ordeca:v:5:y:2008:i:1:p:19-21
    DOI: 10.1287/deca.1080.0107
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