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The Spanish Auction for Government Securities: A Laboratory Analysis

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dc.creator Abbink, Klaus
dc.creator Brandts, Jordi
dc.creator Pezanis-Christou, Paul
dc.date 2007-11-06T10:42:36Z
dc.date 2007-11-06T10:42:36Z
dc.date 2001-03-01
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:58:10Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:58:10Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1906
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1906
dc.description Updated - please see paper 551.02 in this series.
dc.description The Bank of Spain uses a unique auction format to sell government bonds, which can be seen as a hybrid of a uniform and a discriminatory auction. For winning bids above the average winning bid, buyers are charged the average winning bid, otherwise they pay their respective bids. We report an experiment that compares this auc-tion format to the discriminatory format used in most other countries. We use a common value model with multi-unit supply and two-unit demand. The results show significantly higher revenue with the Spanish format, while volatility of prices over time is lower with the discriminatory format. Our data also exhibit the use of bid-spreading strategies.
dc.description Financial support by the European Union from a TMR-ENDEAR network grant (FMRX-CT98-0238) and from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (PB98-0465) is gratefully acknowledged.
dc.language eng
dc.relation UFAE and IAE Working Papers
dc.relation 482.02
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Treasury
dc.subject Spanish auctions
dc.subject Discriminatory auctions
dc.subject Multi-unit demand
dc.subject Common values
dc.subject Experimental economics
dc.title The Spanish Auction for Government Securities: A Laboratory Analysis
dc.type Documento de trabajo


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