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3 Basic Formats Used in Online Advertising Auctions

1

Generalized First-Price Auction

2

Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Auction

3

Generalized Second-Price Auction

RESEARCH

Auction types
Title
Authors
Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords
B. Edelman, M. Ostrovsky, M. Schwarz
Type: GSP
Date Published: March 2007
Issue: American Economic Review, Volume 97, Issue 1, pp. 242-259
Award: Test of Time Award
Position Auctions
Hal R. Varian
Type: GSP
Date Published: December 2007
Issue: International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 1163-1178
The VCG Auction in Theory and Practice
Hal R. Varian and Christopher Harris
Type: VCG
Date Published: May 2014
Issue: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Volume 104, Issue 5, pp. 442-445
Strategic bidder behavior in sponsored search...
Benjamin Edelman and Michael Ostrovsky
Type: GFP
Date Published: February 2007
Issue: Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Issue 1, pp. 192-198

BONUS: CLASSICS

Auction theory and market design
Title
Authors
Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive...
William Vickrey
Date Published: March 1961
Issue: Journal of Finance, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 8-37
Multi-item Auctions
Gabrielle Demange, David Gale, Marilda Sotomayor
Date Published: August 1986
Issue: Journal of Political Economy, Volume 94, Issue 4, pp. 863-872
The assignment game I: The core
Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik
Date Published: December 1971
Issue: International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 111-130
Optimal Auction Design
Roger B. Myerson
Date Published: February 1981
Issue: Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 58-73
College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage
David Gale,Lloyd S. Shapley
Date Published: January 1962
Issue: American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 9-15
Auction Theory,
2nd Edition,
by Vijay Krishna (2009)
Putting Auction
Theory to Work
by Paul Milgrom (2004)

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