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- a sale of goods or property by competitive bidding on the spot, by mail, by telecommunications, or over the Internet
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- Fed Expands Liquidity to Soothe Markets
- WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday announced steps to help ease persistent strains in credit markets, stepping up the size of some cash auctions for financial institutions and raising the amount of U.S. dollars it provides to the European Central Bank...
- News items 2008-05-02
- NY AG Also Probes auction Rate Debt: Source
- By Joan Gralla NEW YORK (Reuters) - UBS AG (UBSN) has received subpoenas from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo on how it handled auction rate debt, a $330 billion market that seized up in late January, a source who had seen the...
- News items 2008-04-17
- Report Clears Adviser's Role in Wireless auction
- By Peter Kaplan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation has cleared a for-profit adviser of any blame for tripping up U.S. government plans to create a wireless network that could be shared with emergency workers. The Federal Communications Commission's inspector general said...
- News items 2008-04-25
- Global Central Banks Extend Lifeline to Credit Markets
- By Mark Felsenthal and Krista Hughes WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve joined two European central banks on Friday in expanding programs to spread more cash through the banking system in hopes of restoring confidence in credit markets. The Fed said it would...
- News items 2008-05-02
- Fed Expands Liquidity Operations to Calm Markets
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Friday announced steps to help ease persistent strains in credit markets, increasing the size of some cash auctions for financial institutions and the amount of U.S. dollars it provides to the European Central Bank...
- News items 2008-05-02
- New York AG Probes auction Rate Markets: Sources
- By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this week launched a sweeping investigation of the $330 billion auction rate securities market, sending subpoenas to 18 banks and brokerages, people familiar with the investigation said on ...
- News items 2008-04-17
- Strategic Sourcing Through Reverse auctions
- A buyer always looks for the best deal possible when he is purchasing products and services, has suppliers competing for business; and discover the optimum terms the market is willing to offer. This article reveals that thanks to reverse auctions, the purchasing organization can control costs, gain efficiencies and maximize...
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- M&A auctions: Are You Ready to Sell Your Company on eBay?
- Auctions seem to have taken over the world of middle market mergers and acquisitions in recent years. It's enough to make a person wonder if eBay will soon advertise "Slightly used high tech company/one owner/mint condition" along with its roster of books, appliances, and autographed baseballs. Like other auctions, M&A...
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- Notice of auction Of Collateral
- Prepare a notice of auction of collateral with this easy-to-use template. This template of notice is given to a debtor by a secured party, advising the debtor that certain collateral pledged as security by the debtor will be sold at public auction by the secured party to cover all or...
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- The FCC auction: Your Top Questions Answered
- Tomorrow the FCC will begin auctioning several chunks of the public airwaves. With the latest government figures indicating that the number of mobile wireless high-speed subscribers in America grew by more than 600 percent in 2006, and every indication that the Mobile Internet will continue to boom, the auction is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Optimal Procurement auctions Of Divisible Goods With Capacitated Suppliers
- The literature on procurement auctions (reverse auctions) typically assumes that the suppliers are uncapacitated. Consequently, these auction mechanisms award the contract to a single supplier. A model is considered where suppliers have limited production capacity, and both marginal costs and the production capacities are private information. This paper constructs the...
- White papers 2007-08-31
- Google Wireless?
- Google announced last Friday that it earmarked at least $4.6 billion to enter the wireless industry via an upcoming federal auction of the once-occupied 700-MHz band of airwaves. But Google also said it won't participate in the auction unless the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agrees to an "open access" framework,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Deterministic Vs. Stochastic Entry: A Benefit Of Running An auction-Negotiation Hybrid Mechanism
- In auctions with costly entry, the entry process matters. This paper compares expected revenues generated by different entry processes. It is shown that an auction with deterministic entry usually generates more expected revenue than that with stochastic entry. Thus influencing the entry process by reducing the randomness of participation is...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Understanding Strategic Bidding In Multi-Unit auctions
- This paper examines the bidding behavior of firms competing in the newly created spot market for electricity in Texas, where electricity generating firms submit hourly supply schedules to sell power. The publisher characterizes an equilibrium model of bidding into this market and use detailed firm-level data on bids and marginal...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Customer Behavior Modeling In Revenue Management And auctions: A Review And New Research Opportunities
- Customer behavior modeling has been gaining increasing attention in the operations management community. It is vital to correctly modeling customer behavior, as a poor understanding of customer behavior can lead to suboptimal decisions with financial implications. This paper reviews current models of customer behavior in the revenue management and auction...
- White papers 2007-05-25
- Information Entrepreneurs And Competition In Procurement auctions
- One of the most important goals of auction design is to attract as many bidders as possible. This paper study the role of a third party, called an information entrepreneur that collects and sells announcements about forthcoming auctions, with the ostensible goal of encouraging participation. A model is presented in...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Why Don't IPO Firms Disclose A Reserve Price?: Secret Reservation Prices In A Divisible Good auction
- A significant proportion of IPOs (Initial Public Offering) filed with the SEC are withdrawn during bookbuilding when it becomes clear to the issuer that they will not achieve a minimum acceptable offer price. Why don't issuers disclose this price at the outset? This question is important given that in many...
- White papers 2006-11-24
- Three Essays On auction, Bargaining And Contract Theory
- Many real-life contract agreements actually involve negotiations in which both parties have some bargaining power. However, standard contract theory assumes that the principal holds all of the bargaining power. The literature has typically modeled that with a one-shot game in which the principal makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the agent....
- White papers 2006-11-20
- Incentives In Core-Selecting auctions
- Recent years have seen a number of new and important applications of stable matching procedures in practical applications, including school assignments in New York and Boston and new designs for life-saving organ exchanges. The mechanisms that have been adopted, and sometimes even the runner-up mechanisms, are stable mechanisms that select...
- White papers 2006-10-18
- Internet Advertising And The Generalized Second-Price auction
- This paper explains a new auction mechanism, which we call the "Generalized Second-Price" auction, or GSP. GSP is tailored to the unique environment of the market for online ads, and neither the environment nor the mechanisms have previously been studied in the mechanism design literature. While studying the properties of...
- White papers 2006-08-01
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