Risk aversion and asymmetry in procurement auctions: Identification, estimation and application to construction procurements
采购拍卖中的风险厌恶与非对称性:识别、估计及建筑采购应用
This article studies a model of asymmetric risk averse bidding within the independent private value paradigm. The inherent asymmetry in cost and risk aversion imposes an original restriction on the observed bid data, an exact equality which leads to the model semiparametric identification and estimation. The unobserved arguments of this equality need to be simulated in order to estimate the bidders’ Constant Relative Risk Aversion or Constant Absolute Risk Aversion…