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Performance analysis of reverse auction mechanisms based on Petri nets

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017
As a methodology of resource location and allocation, reverse auctions are one of the most important activities in supply chains. There are four main auction mechanisms in auction theory, ascending-bid auctions, descending-bid auctions, first-price and ...
Xiaodan Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The communication complexity of private value single item auctions [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we present a new auction, the bisection auction, that can be used for the sale of a single indivisible object. We discuss the issue concerning the information revelation requirement of this auction and the associated amount of data that ...
Grigorieva,Elena   +3 more
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Land Use and Economic Trade‐Offs of Large‐Scale Solar in Agricultural Regions: Marginal National Impacts, Significant Regional Variations

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale solar generation is critical for energy transitions. In Australia, increased solar production to meet emission targets means its land footprint increasingly competes with agricultural land. Understanding the scale and location of agricultural land use change and potential profitability losses from large‐scale solar farms is ...
Raymundo Marcos‐Martinez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Auctions in which Losers Set the Price [PDF]

open access: yes
We study auctions of a single asset among symmetric bidders with affiliated values. We show that the second-price auction minimizes revenue among all efficient auction mechanisms in which only the winner pays, and the price only depends on the losers ...
Mezzetti, Claudio, Tsetlin, Ilia
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Optimal Auctions vs. Anonymous Pricing

open access: yes, 2015
For selling a single item to agents with independent but non-identically distributed values, the revenue optimal auction is complex. With respect to it, Hartline and Roughgarden (2009) showed that the approximation factor of the second-price auction with
Alaei, Saeed   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Planning and Solar Farms: A Front Line in Net Zero Disputes?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Solar power is rapidly increasing in importance as a source of UK renewable energy. However, planning applications for solar farms have emerged as a new cleavage in what was previously a consensus policy area of acting to counter climate change.
David Toke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development and Fate of Vilnius University Professors’ Personal Libraries in 1803–1832: Current Research Areas

open access: yesKnygotyra
The article examines the circulation of the book collections of professors of Vilnius Imperial University in academic and urban culture in 1803–1832 from the aspect of the legacy of personal libraries.
Arvydas Pacevičius
doaj   +1 more source

Pricing Rule in a Clock Auction [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyze a discrete clock auction with lowest-accepted bid (LAB) pricing and provisional winners, as adopted by India for its 3G spectrum auction. In a perfect Bayesian equilibrium, the provisional winner shades her bid while provisional losers do not.
Pacharasut Sujarittanonta, Peter Cramton
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Auctions with heterogeneous entry costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We study the impact of public and secret reserve prices in auctions where buyers have independent private values and heterogeneous entry costs. We find that in a standard auction the optimal (i.e., revenue maximizing) public reserve price is typically ...
Moreno, Diego, Wooders, John
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

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