Identification of first-price auctions with endogenous entry and possibly biased beliefs
内生进入与可能有偏信念下第一价格拍卖的识别
This paper studies identification of first-price auctions where bidders enter auctions endogenously and may have biased beliefs about the valuation distribution. We analyze the symmetric independent private setup under three commonly used entry models. In the Levin-Smith entry model, the primitives are point-identified. In the Samuelson entry model, the primitives are identified only on a subset of the support of valuations. In the arbitrarily selective entry model, the…