
Strategic bidding in multi‐unit auctions with capacity constrained bidders: the New York capacity market
This article employs a simple model to describe bidding behavior in multi‐unit uniform price procurement auctions when firms are capacity constrained. Using data from the New York City procurement auctions for power generating capacity, I find that firms use simple bidding strategies
to coordinate on an equilibrium that extracts high rents for all bidders. I show theoretically and empirically that the largest bidder submits the auction clearing bid. All other bidders submit inframarginal bids that are low enough to not be profitably undercut. Inframarginal bidders decrease
their bids as the pivotal firm's capacities and its profits of undercutting increase.
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Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: October 1, 2015