Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118020 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 144.2004
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
A buyer with downward slopping demand faces a number of unit supply sellers. The paper characterizes optimal auctions in this setting. For the symmetric case, a uniform auction (with price equal to lowest rejected offer) is optimal when complemented with reserve prices for different quantities acquired. For asymmetric sellers, the optimal distortions are familiar. The problem is similar to the third degree discriminating monopsonist problem, just as in the unit (flat) demand case (Bulow-Roberts, 1989), and when the number of sellers (and the demand) grows their outcomes approach at the speed of the law of large numbers.
Subjects: 
Auctions
Monopsony
JEL: 
D44
D42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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