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Auction theory and applications

Research Project
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01.01.1999
 - 31.12.2011

This project deals with a speial class of mechanisms knows as auctions. Auctions are a very old and widely used and successful method for allocating goods or contracts. This project explores the auction mechanism theoretically and empirically.

Publications

Lengwiler, Yvan and Wolfstetter, Elmar (2010) ‘Auctions and corruption: An analysis of bid rigging by a corrupt auctioneer’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34(10), pp. 1872–1892. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2010.03.002.

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Lengwiler, Yvan and Wolfstetter, Elmar (2006) ‘Corruption in procurement auctions’, in Dimitri, N; Piga, G; Spagnolo, G (ed.) Handbook of Procurement : Theory and Practice for Managers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Handbook of Procurement : Theory and Practice for Managers), pp. 412–429. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511492556.017.

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Lengwiler, Yvan and Wolfstetter, Elmar (2005) ‘On Some Auction Rules for Amicable Divorce in Equal Share Partnerships’, in Thomas Beschorner and Thomas Eger (ed.) Das Ethische in der Ökonomie : Festschrift für Hans G. Nutzinger. Marburg: Metropolis (Ethik und Ökonomie), p. S. 199–211. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.727763.

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Jörin, Robert and Lengwiler, Yvan (2004) ‘Learning from financial markets : auctioning tariff-rate quotas in agricultural trade’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, 140(4), pp. 521–541.

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Heller, Daniel and Lengwiler, Yvan (2001) ‘Should the treasury price discriminate? : a procedure for computing hypothetical bid functions’, Journal of institutional and theoretical economics, 157(3), pp. 413–429. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1628/0932456013621279.

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Lengwiler, Yvan (2001) ‘Die Schweizer UMTS-Auktion’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, 137(2), pp. 199–208.

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Lengwiler, Y (1999) ‘The multiple unit auction with variable supply’, Economic theory, 14(2), pp. 373–392. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050299.

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Yvan Lengwiler

Principal Investigator