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Misapplications Reviews: Getting the Model Right—The Case of Competitive Bidding

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  • Michael H. Rothkopf

    (School of Business and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903)

  • Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans

    (Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820)

Abstract

The usefulness of a model depends upon how well it captures essential elements of the actual problem. Mismodel the problem, and the conclusions may be wrong. Getting the model right is at least as important as solving the model correctly. In the analysis of competitive bidding, getting the model right has proven difficult. Even seemingly small changes in bidding models may lead to quite different conclusions. Repeatedly, bidding models have proven to be flawed, often with unnerving effects on the conclusions drawn from them. In this guest column, we review several modeling failures documented previously and then present two new examples.

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  • Michael H. Rothkopf & Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans, 1993. "Misapplications Reviews: Getting the Model Right—The Case of Competitive Bidding," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 23(3), pages 99-106, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:23:y:1993:i:3:p:99-106
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.23.3.99
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    Cited by:

    1. Paul Klemperer, 2002. "What Really Matters in Auction Design," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 16(1), pages 169-189, Winter.
    2. T R Willemain & W A Wallace & K R Fleischmann & L B Waisel & S N Ganaway, 2003. "Bad numbers: coping with flawed decision support," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 54(9), pages 949-957, September.

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