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Privacy Preserving Auctions

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  • Eilat, Ran
  • Eliaz, Kfir
  • Mu, Xiaosheng

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In many auction settings the auctioneer must disclose the identity of the winner and the price he pays. We characterize the auction that minimizes the winner's privacy loss among those that maximize total surplus or the seller's revenue, and are strategy-proof. Privacy loss is measured with respect to what an outside observer learns from the disclosed price, and is quantified by the mutual information between the price and the winner's willingness to pay. When only interim individual-rationality is required, the most privacy preserving auction involves stochastic ex-post payments. Under ex-post individual rationality, it is the second-price auction with deterministic payments.

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  • Eilat, Ran & Eliaz, Kfir & Mu, Xiaosheng, 2023. "Privacy Preserving Auctions," CEPR Discussion Papers 18662, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:18662
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    JEL classification:

    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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