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Decarolis, Francesco
, Goldmanis, Maris and Penta, Antonio
(2019)
Marketing Agencies and Collusive Bidding in Online Ad Auctions.
TSE Working Paper, n. 19-1011, Toulouse
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Abstract
The transition of the advertising market from traditional media to the internet has induced a proliferation of marketing agencies specialized in bidding in the auctions that are used to sell ad space on the web. We analyze how collusive bidding can emerge from bid delegation to a common marketing agency and how this can undermine the revenues and allocative efficiency of both the Generalized Second Price auction (GSP, used by Google and Microsoft-Bing and Yahoo!) and the of VCG mechanism (used by Facebook). We find that, despite its well-known susceptibility to collusion, the VCG mechanism outperforms the GSP auction both in terms of revenues and efficiency.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | April 2019 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Collusion, Digital Marketing Agencies, Facebook, Google, GSP, Internet Auctions, Online Advertising, VCG. |
| JEL Classification: | C72 - Noncooperative Games D44 - Auctions L81 - Retail and Wholesale Trade; Warehousing; e-Commerce |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 May 2019 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 16:01 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:122943 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/32433 |
