Distinguishing incentive from selection effects in auction-determined contracts
拍卖决定合同中的激励效应与选择效应区分
This paper develops a novel approach to estimate how contract and principal–agent characteristics influence a post-auction outcome when the matching between agents and principals derives from an auction process. We propose a control-function approach to account jointly for the endogeneity of contracts and matching. This consists of, first, estimating the primitives of an interdependent values auction model – which is shown to be non-parametrically identified from the bidding…