To: sag who wrote (25446 ) 7/22/2003 12:27:25 PM From: 49thMIMOMander Respond to of 34857 Sir Gent is saying goodbye to bundled carrier contracts and handsets, a decade after the SIM card should have done it "After all it was" the UK operators that had to be sure arrange the first major 3G auction. (Finland was first and tried to make a point of using some less destructive game-theory ideas, while EU already had tried to achieve the same for all of EU) Funny thing how difficult that is, considering that it has been documented by the auction expert himself (while Binmore the gameguy is staying as silent as possible as the game still goes on)nuff.ox.ac.uk Using and Abusing Economic Theory---Lessons from Auction Design 2002 Marshall Lecture to European Economic Association. Preliminary draft to be published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, and to be reprinted in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, S. Hurn (ed.). Paul Klemperer. COMMENTS ESPECIALLY WELCOME. Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects References Updated version of Switching Costs section Preliminary draft chapter for Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol 3. Joe Farrell and Paul Klemperer. COMMENTS ESPECIALLY WELCOME. Why Every Economist Should Learn Some Auction Theory Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Invited Lectures to 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society, M. Dewatripont, L. Hansen and S. Turnovsky (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2003. Paul Klemperer. [Zip file available] What Really Matters in Auction Design Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002. Paul Klemperer. How (Not) to Run Auctions: the European 3G Telecom Auctions European Economic Review, 2002. (Also reprinted in Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications, G. Illing (ed.).) Paul Klemperer. Japanese Translation The Biggest Auction Ever: the Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licences Economic Journal, 2002. Ken Binmore and Paul Klemperer. Some Observations on the British and German 3G Telecom Auctions ifo Studien (CES ifo Economic Studies) 2002. (Also reprinted in Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications, G. Illing (ed.), MIT Press, forthcoming.) Paul Klemperer. Prices and the Winner's Curse Rand Journal of Economics, 2002. Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer. Advantaged Bidders and Spectrum Prices: An Empirical Analysis Preliminary abstract. Paul Klemperer and Marco Pagnozzi. An Early Example of the "Winner's Curse" in an Auction Lagniappe to JPE, 2001. Paul Klemperer and Peter Temin.