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The effect of bidder heterogeneity on combinatorial conservation auction designs

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posted on 2023-05-17, 16:49 authored by Md Sayed Iftekhar, Hailu, A, Lindner, RK
In an iterative combinatorial auction, bidders can submit bids on individual and/or on combinations of projects in a series of intermediate rounds, where bid prices are revised before a final allocation is made. The iterative format is useful for conservation service procurement as landholders can rely on market information revealed through the rounds to evaluate their choices of projects and bid prices. However, there is no single way of providing the market information. Different designs for generating price information have been proposed. Little is known about the performance of iterative combinatorial auction designs when heterogeneous bidders, with different cost structures, participate in an auction. Using an agent based model, we evaluate a selected set of designs under different bidder heterogeneity scenarios. We observe that higher degrees of heterogencity lead to lower auction efficiency and that auction outcomes are highly sentive to price feedback design choices.

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Publication title

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volume

53

Pagination

137-157

ISSN

0924-6460

Department/School

College Office - College of Business and Economics

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publ

Place of publication

Van Godewijckstraat 30, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 3311 Gz

Rights statement

Copyright 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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Ecological economics

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