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    The Price of Anarchy (PoA) is a concept in game theory and mechanism design that measures how the social welfare of a system degrades due to selfish behavior...
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  • The Price of Anarchy (PoA) is a concept in economics and game theory that measures how the efficiency of a system degrades due to selfish behavior of its...
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    A first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSBA) is a common type of auction. It is also known as blind auction. In this type of auction, all bidders simultaneously...
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    Vickrey auctions are much studied in economic literature but uncommon in practice. Generalized variants of the Vickrey auction for multiunit auctions exist...
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    auctions were used in ancient times. Descending-price auctions were used in 17th-century Holland for estate sales and paintings. The Dutch manner of auctioning...
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    extension of the Vickrey auction, it conserves some of the desirable properties of the Vickrey auction. It is used mainly in the context of keyword auctions, where...
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    mechanism. Milgrom, Paul (2004). Uniform Price Auctions. In Putting Auction Theory to Work. Churchill Lectures in Economics. p. 255-295. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511813825...
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    price, despite their own proxy valuation. Open ascending-bid auctions (English auctions) are the oldest, and possibly most common, type of auction in...
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    Single-price auctions are a pricing method in securities auctions that give all purchasers of an issue the same purchase price. They can be perceived...
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    include government bond auctions, electricity market auctions and compliance certificate markets. In theory, the uniform-price auction provides an incentive...
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