First-price sealed-bid auctions yield higher revenue than second-price auctions under certain conditions

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Economic theory and auction literature support that under specific conditions, such as bidder risk aversion, first-price sealed-bid auctions can yield higher expected revenues than second-price auctions.

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Wikipedia: Auction theory

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Wikipedia: Auction theory. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_theory

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link.springer.com: Revenue comparison of discrete private-value auctions via weak dominance | Review of Economic Design | Springer Nature Link

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link.springer.com: Revenue comparison of discrete private-value auctions via weak dominance | Review of Economic Design | Springer Nature Link. link.springer.com. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10058-017-0202-z

Discusses expected revenue comparisons between first-price and second-price auctions under specific conditions.

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