Auctions

Auctions
Author: Charles W. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520072015

Smith tells how the straight capitalist economic law of supply and demand rarely governs the auction process, and how the beliefs and actions of the auction participants determine values.

Auctions

Auctions
Author: Mr.Robert Alan Feldman
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 145184283X

A major effort is taking place in many parts of the world to establish market-oriented institutions, a development that is particularly evident in the context of the transforming economies in Eastern Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union. Against this background, this paper assesses various auction techniques to price and allocate government securities, refinance credit, foreign exchange, and state assets in the context of privatization programs. Before making our recommendations on the appropriate format for auctioning these items, the paper explains basic auction formats and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of these formats drawing on the existing, and mostly theoretical, literature.

Auctions

Auctions
Author: Paul Klemperer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691186294

Governments use them to sell everything from oilfields to pollution permits, and to privatize companies; consumers rely on them to buy baseball tickets and hotel rooms, and economic theorists employ them to explain booms and busts. Auctions make up many of the world's most important markets; and this book describes how auction theory has also become an invaluable tool for understanding economics. Auctions: Theory and Practice provides a non-technical introduction to auction theory, and emphasises its practical application. Although there are many extremely successful auction markets, there have also been some notable fiascos, and Klemperer provides many examples. He discusses the successes and failures of the one-hundred-billion dollar "third-generation" mobile-phone license auctions; he, jointly with Ken Binmore, designed the first of these. Klemperer also demonstrates the surprising power of auction theory to explain seemingly unconnected issues such as the intensity of different forms of industrial competition, the costs of litigation, and even stock trading 'frenzies' and financial crashes. Engagingly written, the book makes the subject exciting not only to economics students but to anyone interested in auctions and their role in economics.

Auctions and Auctioneering

Auctions and Auctioneering
Author: Ralph Cassady Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520322258

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

FCC Record

FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1994
Genre: Telecommunication
ISBN:

Electricity Auctions

Electricity Auctions
Author: Luiz Maurer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 082138824X

Electricity-contract auctions have been getting increased attention as they have emerged as a successful mechanism to procure new generation capacity and. This book presents a comprehensive overview of international experiences in auction design and implementation.

Making Money with Storage Auctions

Making Money with Storage Auctions
Author: Edward Busoni
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2008-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 143571279X

It is a little known fact that all across America each month, thousands of storage units are auctioned off because the tenants have failed to pay the rent. The vast majority of these units will be sold well below what they are worth. This creates an opportunity for the ambitious, risk taking investor. It is possible to buy these units and profit from the sale of the items they contain. I, personally, have seen profits in one day that put a years worth of stock market gains to shame. You might ask yourself why you have not heard about these opportunities before. Well, the answer is that auction buyers know how much money they can make and are careful not to reveal their secrets. Inside this book, I break this code of silence. Learn how you can take part in this great opportunity!

Understanding Auctions

Understanding Auctions
Author: Srobonti Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351271067

The book elaborates the basic principles of Auction Theory in a non-technical language so as to make them easily accessible to even those not trained in the discipline. Auctions as allocation mechanisms have been in use across the world since antiquity and are still employed in different countries for purchase and sales of a wide range of objects, both by governments and by private agents. Auction has gained popularity over other allocation mechanisms since the rules of auctions are very precise, involve much less subjective judgements compared to other alternative allocation mechanisms and lead to a more efficient process of discovering the true willingness of the buyers to pay. Moreover, the principles of Auction Theory are used in other contexts, for example in designing contests, or in controlling emission levels through allocation of permits and licenses.