The Reserve Price Serves Two Related Purposes

question 16

Multiple Choice

The reserve price serves two related purposes.One of them is to elevate the final bid price.The other one is _____.

• A)to raise the seller's personal value for the item
• B)to protect the seller from auctioning the good for too low a price
• C)to ensure that the highest bid remains identical for any type of auction
• D)to reach equilibrium bid-price level in case of asymmetric distribution of private value
• E)to keep the bid-price level within the maximum private value in the auction

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