Auction Theory for Auction Design
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* Paper to appear as Chapter 1 in the book " Auctioning Public Assets " edited by Maarten Janssen, to be published by Cambridge University Press. We are grateful to Maarten for inviting us to write this survey. Preparing the survey has made us painfully aware of the gaps in our knowledge of the auction literature and we apologize for all errors and omissions. Tilman Börgers gratefully acknowledges financial support from the " Economic and Social Research Council " (UK).
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