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Continuity of the first price auction Nash equilibrium correspondence

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  • Bernard Lebrun

    (Département d'économique, Université Laval, Pavillon J.-A.-De Sève, Québec, G1K 7P4, CANADA)

Abstract

Despite the complexity of the first price auction in the general asymmetric case, analytical results have started to emerge in the literature. Authors have also searched to gain insights by computing numerical estimates of the equilibria for some probability distributions of the valuations. This paper proves that the Nash equilibrium of the first price auction depends continuously, for the weak topology, on the valuation distributions and thus brings robustness to the numerical results as well as some theoretical results. As an example of application, we disprove a conjecture of comparative statics.

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  • Bernard Lebrun, 2002. "Continuity of the first price auction Nash equilibrium correspondence," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 20(3), pages 435-453.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:20:y:2002:i:3:p:435-453
    Note: Received: February 1, 1999; revised version: July 27, 2001
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    Keywords

    First price auctions; Nash equilibrium correspondence; Robustness of numerical and theoretical results.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions

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