Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85872 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 03-017/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper develops an economic argument relating auctions to high marketprices. At the core of the argument is the claim that market competition andbidding in an auction should be analyzed as part of one game, where the pricingstrategies in the market subgame depend on the bidding strategies during theauction.I show that the only equilibrium in the overall game that is consistentwith the logic of forward induction is the one where firms bid an amount(almost) equal to the profits of the cooperative market outcome and follow acooperative pricing strategy in the market game resulting in high prices.
Subjects: 
auctions
market collusions.
JEL: 
L50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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