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Should the price start out low and ascend, or high and descend? Should the winner pay her own bid a first-price auction , or the bid of the second-highest bidder, or the third? Should there be an entry fee, or a reserve price — and if so, what should it be? Perhaps the seller should share some of her information, like test-drilling results for natural resources. By applying the tools of game theory for which John Nash, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten shared the Nobel in Milgrom and Wilson made profoundly important contributions to our understanding of auctions.

That is, the object up for auction is worth the same to whomever wins it, but bidders have different information about that value. If bidders get different signals about the value of the object — say a mining right or a financial security — and they bid more the higher their signal, then the winning bidder will be the person who got the highest signal.

But that means their estimate of the value is higher than that of all the other bidders! Failing to account for this would lead to overpaying. But people fail to do so quite often — as a previous economics laureate Richard Thaler has pointed out.

In buying a house or a car you will naturally consider your own idiosyncratic tastes, but also the tastes of other people because those affect resale value. In addition to developing novel and elegant theory, Milgrom and Wilson helped develop new auction formats for important settings where there are multiple objects and the value of different goods is interrelated.

Spectrum-frequency bands, electricity, and batches of distressed debt are all notable examples. For instance, economies of scale and scope in electricity distribution makes the value of different units interrelated. This format has become the standard way of selling spectrum licenses around the world. When the US Treasury gets a better price for bonds, taxpayers benefit. When parts of the spectrum are allocated to their highest-value user, consumers tend to be better off, and so on.

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Ron Camacho Articles Published. Speaking to reporters in Stockholm by phone after learning of his win, Wilson struggled to think of an auction in which he himself had participated. I guess that was an auction. Nash developed the Nash equilibrium to analyse situations of conflict and cooperation and produce predictions about how people will behave. It found application in fields as diverse as computing, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. There was speculation ahead of the award that American Claudia Goldin, whose research has focused on inequality and the female labour force, would become the third woman to receive the prize.