TY - JOUR ID - publications2350 UR - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/20593 IS - 2 A1 - Armantier, Olivier A1 - Treich, Nicolas Y1 - 2009/08// N2 - There is a debate about whether risk aversion is the main source of overbidding in a first-price independent private values auction. As an alternative, we adopt a non-expected utility framework, and identify an interpretable property on the probability weighting function which always induces overbidding. PB - Elsevier JF - Economics Letters VL - 104 SN - 0165-1765 TI - Star-Shaped Probability Weighting Functions and Overbidding in First-Price Auctions SP - 83 AV - public EP - 85 ER -