The Prospect Theory and First Price Auctions: an Explanation of Overbidding

This paper attempted using the prospect theory to explain overbidding in first price auctions. The standard outlook in the literature on auctions is that bidders overbid, but the probability weighting functions are nonlinear as in the prospect theory, so they not only tend to underweight the probabi...

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Main Authors: Dushko Josheski, Mico Apostolov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu 2023-02-01
Series:Ekonometria
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Online Access:https://journals.ue.wroc.pl/eada/article/view/1069
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