Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers Creation-Date: 2008-03-28 Number: 08-034/1 Author-Name: Maarten C.W. Janssen Author-Email: janssen@few.eur.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam Author-Name: Vladimir A. Karamychev Author-Email: karamychev@few.eur.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam Author-Name: Emiel Maasland Author-Email: emaasland@few.eur.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam Title: Simultaneous Pooled Auctions with Multiple Bids and Preference Lists Abstract: This discussion paper led to a publication in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2010). Vol. 166, issue 2, pages 286-298.

A simultaneous pooled auction with multiple bids and preference lists is a way to auction multiple objects, in which bidders simultaneously express a bid for each object and a preference ordering over which object they would like to get in case they have the highest bid on more than one object. This type of auction has been used in the Netherlands and in Ireland to auction available spectrum. We show that this type of auction does not satisfy elementary desirable properties such as the existence of an efficient equilibrium. Classification-JEL: C72; D44 Keywords: Simultaneous pooled auctions; Multi-object sealed-bid auctions; Multiple bids; Single-object demand; Preference lists File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/08034.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 309792 bytes Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20080034