393 research outputs found
English Auctions with toeholds: An experimental study
We run experiments on English Auctions where the bidders already own a part (toehold) of the good for sale. The theory predicts a very strong effect of even small toeholds, however we find the effects are not so strong in the lab. We explain this by analyzing the flatness of the payoff functions, which leads to relatively costless deviations from the equilibrium strategies. We find that a levels of reasoning model explains the results better than the Nash equilibrium. Moreover, we find that although big toeholds can be effective, the cost to acquire them might be higher than the strategic benefit they bring. Finally our results show that in general the seller’s revenues fall when the playing field is uneven.Experiments, toehold auction, takeover, payoff, flatness, quantal response, level-k, LeeX
Coalition Formation in a Legislative Voting Game
We experimentally investigate the Jackson-Moselle (2002) model where legislators bargain over policy proposals and the allocation of private goods. Key comparative static predictions of the model hold as policy proposals shift in the predicted direction with private goods, with the variance in policy outcomes increasing as well. Private goods increase total welfare even after accounting for their cost and help secure legislative compromise. Coalition formations are better characterized by an efficient equal split between coalition partners than the stationary subgame perfect equilibrium prediction
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Asymmetric auctions with resale: An experimental study
We study auctions with resale based on Hafalir and Krishna's (2008) [6] model. As predicted, weak bidders bid more with resale than without, so that average auction prices tend to increase. When the equilibrium calls for weak types to bid higher than their values with resale they do, but not nearly as much as the theory predicts. In other treatments outcomes are much closer to the risk neutral Nash model's predictions. Bid distributions for weak and strong types are more similar with resale than without, in line with the theory
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Auctions with toeholds:An experimental study of company takeover
We run experiments on English Auctions where the bidders already own a part (toehold) of the good for sale. The theory predicts a very strong (“explosive”) effect of even small toeholds. While asymmetric toeholds do have an effect on bids and revenues in the lab, which gets stronger the larger the asymmetry, it is not nearly as strong as predicted. We explain this by analyzing the flatness of the payoff functions, which leads to large deviations from the equilibrium strategies being relatively costless. This is a general fundamental weakness of this type of explosive equilibria, which makes them fail when human players are involved. Our analysis shows that a levels of reasoning model explains the results better where this equilibrium fails. Moreover, we find that although big toeholds can be effective in a takeover battle, the cost to acquire them might be higher than the strategic benefit they bring
Extreme Scale De Novo Metagenome Assembly
Metagenome assembly is the process of transforming a set of short,
overlapping, and potentially erroneous DNA segments from environmental samples
into the accurate representation of the underlying microbiomes's genomes.
State-of-the-art tools require big shared memory machines and cannot handle
contemporary metagenome datasets that exceed Terabytes in size. In this paper,
we introduce the MetaHipMer pipeline, a high-quality and high-performance
metagenome assembler that employs an iterative de Bruijn graph approach.
MetaHipMer leverages a specialized scaffolding algorithm that produces long
scaffolds and accommodates the idiosyncrasies of metagenomes. MetaHipMer is
end-to-end parallelized using the Unified Parallel C language and therefore can
run seamlessly on shared and distributed-memory systems. Experimental results
show that MetaHipMer matches or outperforms the state-of-the-art tools in terms
of accuracy. Moreover, MetaHipMer scales efficiently to large concurrencies and
is able to assemble previously intractable grand challenge metagenomes. We
demonstrate the unprecedented capability of MetaHipMer by computing the first
full assembly of the Twitchell Wetlands dataset, consisting of 7.5 billion
reads - size 2.6 TBytes.Comment: Accepted to SC1
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