Estimation and inference of seller's expected revenue in first-price auctions

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作者
Zincenko, Federico [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nebraska Lincoln, Coll Business, Lincoln, NE USA
[2] 730 N 14th St, HLH 525J, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
关键词
First-price auction; Seller's expected revenue; Counterfactual reserve price; Uniform confidence band; Bootstrap; NONPARAMETRIC-ESTIMATION; RISK-AVERSION; HONEST;
D O I
10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105734
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
I propose an estimator for the seller's expected revenue function in a first -price sealed-bid auction with independent private values and symmetric bidders, who can exhibit constant relative risk aversion and bid according to the Bayesian Nash equilibrium. I build the proposed estimator from pseudo-private values, which can be estimated from observed bids, and show that it is pointwise and uniformly consistent: the corresponding optimal nonparametric rates of convergence can be achieved. Then I construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals and uniform confidence bands. Suggestions for critical values are based on first-order asymptotics, as well as on the bootstrap method.
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