Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)
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Author: James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris
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Chapter 15A, Problem 8E
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To explain: As to how the second-highest sealed-bid ascending-price auction design could diminish the “winner’s curse” and decrease the strategic underbidding which arise from the highest-wins-and-pays typical ascending-price auctions with sealed bids.
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