Article ID: | iaor201526320 |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 253 |
End Page Number: | 274 |
Publication Date: | May 2015 |
Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
Authors: | Ghosh Gagan |
Keywords: | economics |
I analyze an auction environment where two units of an object are sold at two simultaneous, sealed‐bid, first‐price auctions to bidders who have a one‐dimensional type space, where a type represents the value a bidder places on each of the two units. All bidders have an identical budget constraint that binds their ability to spend in the auctions. I show that if the valuation distribution is atom‐less then there does not exist any equilibrium in behavioral strategies in this auction game.