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Börgers, Tilman, Cox, Ingemar, Pesendorfer, Martin, and Petricek, Vaclav. Replication data for: Equilibrium Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions: Theory and Evidence. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114412V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This paper presents a game theoretic analysis of the generalized second-price auction that the company Overture operated in 2004 to sell sponsored search listings on search engines. We construct a model that embodies few prior assumptions about parameters, and we present results that indicate that this model has under quite general assumptions a multiplicity of Nash equilibria. We then analyze bid data assuming that advertisers choose Nash equilibrium bids. We offer preliminary conclusions about advertisers' true willingness to bid for sponsored search listings. We find that advertisers' true willingness to bid is multi-dimensional and decreasing in listing position.

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      D44 Auctions
      L86 Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
      M31 Marketing
      M37 Advertising


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