Empirical Models of Auctions / Susan Athey, Philip A. Haile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Athey, Susan.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Haile, Philip A.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12126.

NBER working paper series no. w12126

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

Many important economic questions arising in auctions can be answered only with knowledge of the underlying primitive distributions governing bidder demand and information. An active literature has developed aiming to estimate these primitives by exploiting restrictions from economic theory as part of the econometric model used to interpret auction data. We review some highlights of this recent literature, focusing on identification and empirical applications. We describe three insights that underlie much of the recent methodological progress in this area and discuss some of the ways these insights have been extended to richer models allowing more convincing empirical applications. We discuss several recent empirical studies using these methods to address a range of important economic questions.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2006.