Information acquisition and/or bid preparation: A structural analysis of entry and bidding in timber sale auctions
信息获取与投标准备:木材拍卖进入和竞价的结构分析
Recently, several auction models with entry have been proposed: in one model (Levin and Smith, 1994; Li and Zheng, 2009), bidders are assumed to draw their private values after they decide to enter. In another model (Samuelson, 1985; Li and Zheng, 2009), bidders are assumed to learn their values before their entry decisions are made. The entry cost in the latter model can be interpreted as bid preparation cost, while the entry cost in the former model consists of both costs…