I study affiliated, pure common-value auctions with ex-ante asymmetric buyers. For the two-buyer case I characterize and prove uniqueness of the equilibrium of hybrid auctions where the payment is a weighted average of the highest and second-highest bids. A recursive method to explicitly compute the equilibrium is presented. It is shown that any hybrid auction yields at least as much revenue as the first-price auction. In particular, the equilibrium of the second-price auction, obtained in the limit by letting the weight of the highest bid go to zero, revenue-dominates the first-price auction.

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Citation Information: Contributions in Theoretical Economics. Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 1–19, ISSN (Online) 1534-5971, DOI: 10.2202/1534-5971.1304, December 2006
Publication History:
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- 2006-12-17
Keywords: auctions; asymmetric information; differential information; revenue-ranking; linkage-principle


















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