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Vickrey Auction


An auction in which the highest bidder wins but pays only the second-highest bid. This variation over the normal bidding procedure is supposed to encourage bidders to bid the largest amount they are willing to pay.


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Auction

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References

Vickrey, W. "Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders." J. Finance 16, 8-27, 1961. Reprinted in The Economics of Information, Vol. 1 (Ed. D. K. Levine and S. A. Lippman). Aldershot, Hants, England: Elgar, pp. 8-44, 1995.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Vickrey Auction." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/VickreyAuction.html

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