Econ 191AU

Announcements:

 

As always please go to http://econ.ucsb.edu/~garratt/bids/ to enter your values and bids for the latest experiement!

 

Here are the sample questions for the midterm and final.

 

Sample Questions: Midterm, Final

 

Most, but not all, of the questions on the final will come from these problems. Feel free to work on answers with friends. If you have trouble with any of the problems ask me for help.

 

Course Syllabus

 

Lecture Notes (Protected by Copyright):
Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

Chapter 7

Chapter 6

Slides
Intro to Auction Theory

Experiment 1: SPA 2 bidder, SPA 5 bidder, SPA 2 bidder $50 reserve, SPA 2 bidder $25 entry fee

Experiment 2: FPA 2 bidder, FPA 5 bidder, FPA 2 bidder $50 reserve, FPA 2 bidder $25 entry fee

Average Revenue for Experiments 1 and 2

Individual bid functions 2 bidder FPA, Individual bid functions 5 bidder FPA

Bidding with risk aversion

Common Value Auctions: All Pay Auction Lecture

Experiment 3: All pay cdfs

Experiment 4: 2 bidder penny jar,  48 bidder penny jar

Reserve Price Experiment: 2 bidder, V=0 and V=30 , 5 bidder, V=0 and V=30, 2 and 5 bidder, V=0, 2 and 5 bidder, V=30, reserve saliency plot V=0, reserve saliency plot V=30

Bid Against the Machine: FPA bidder expected payoff as function of bid

Assignments
Assignment 1, Assignment 2

 

Articles
Ideal Bootstrapping and Exact Recombination (Bergstrom and Garratt)