Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102663 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2014/10
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies collusion in one-shot auctions, where a buyer can bribe his competitors into lowering their bids. We modify the single-unit Vickrey auction to incite deviations from the designated-winner scenario and thus undermine collusion. The construction of mechanism does not require the knowledge of colluders´ identities or distributions of valuations, in which sense it is entirely detail-free.
Subjects: 
Bidder collusion
detail-free auctions
Vickrey auction
JEL: 
D82
C72
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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