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Optimality And The Second-Price Auction With Resale

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  • Bernard Lebrun

    (Department of Economics, York University)

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If the value cumulative distribution functions are log-concave at the highest lower extremity of their supports of the first-price auction in the asymmetric indepent private values model.

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  • Bernard Lebrun, 2004. "Optimality And The Second-Price Auction With Resale," Discussion Papers 2004_03, York University, Department of Economics, revised May 2004.
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