Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93947 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 116
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper completely characterizes the set of Nash equilibria of the Vickrey auction for multiple identical units when buyers have non-increasing marginal valuations and there at least three potential buyers. There are two types of equilibria: In the first class of equilibria there are positive bids below the maximum valuation. In this class, above a threshold value all bidders bid truthfully on all units. One of the bidders bids at the threshold for any unit for which his valuation is below the threshold; the other bidders bid zero in this range. In the second class of equilibria there are as many bids at or above the maximum valuation as there are units. The allocation of these bids is arbitrary across bidders. All the remaining bids equal zero. With any positive reserve price equilibrium becomes unique: Bidders bid truthfully on all units for which their valuation exceeds the reserve price.
Subjects: 
Vickrey auction
Multi-unit auction
ex-post equilibrium
reserve price
uniqueness
JEL: 
C72
D44
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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