Discussion paper

DP7487 A New Payment Rule for Core-Selecting Package Auctions

We propose a new, easy-to-implement, class of payment rules, "Reference Rules," to make core-selecting package auctions more robust. Small, almost riskless, profitable deviations from "truthful bidding" are often easy for bidders to find under currently-used payment rules. Reference Rules perform better than existing rules on our marginal-incentive-to-deviate criterion, and are as robust as existing rules to large deviations. Other considerations, including fairness and comprehensibility, also support the use of Reference Rules.

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Citation

Klemperer, P and A Erdil (2009), ‘DP7487 A New Payment Rule for Core-Selecting Package Auctions‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7487. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp7487