Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22935 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Bonn Econ Discussion Papers No. 29/2005
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Bonn
Abstract: 
Zheng has recently proposed a seller-optimal auction for (asymmetric) independentprivate- value environments where inter-bidder resale is possible. Zheng's construction requires novel conditions on the bidders' value distribution profile. We clarify the restrictions implied by these conditions. Given distributions for two bidders and the supports of the other bidders' distributions, Zheng's conditions uniquely determine the entire distribution profile. Moreover, if the bidders' distributions have the same support then Zheng's conditions imply that all distributions except one are identical, so that the final allocation is obtained after a single resale transaction, regardless of the number of bidders.
Subjects: 
independent private values
optimal auction
resale
inverse virtual valuation function
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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