Download or read book Bidding Playing Or Competing written by Yim Tonia Chu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century written by Marshall Miles and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Miles addresses the complex arena of competitive bidding methods for the more advanced player. He discusses current thinking, and recommends methods which will continue to be playable as bridge enters its second century. This book will appeal to fairly serious players only. There are two earlier books on this topic by the same author, 5 and 10 years old respectively, and therefore superseded by this new work.
Download or read book Bridge written by Barbara Seagram and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up book from the author team that produced the award-winning and best-selling 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. Aimed at the same novice/social player audience as their first book, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and has never up to now been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable for non-experts.
Download or read book Bidding Behavior at Competing Auctions written by Sajid Anwar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing auction literature treats on-line auctions as running independently of one another with each bidder choosing to participate in only one auction. In fact, in the case of on-line auctions, many substitutable goods are auctioned concurrently and bidders can bid at several auctions at the same time. Recent theoretical research by Peters and Severinov (2001) is highly relevant to the study of bidding behavior in on-line auctions, showing that bidders can gain from the existence of competing auctions. In the light of this work, this paper attempts to provide an empirical assessment of the competing auctions theory. The evidence presented in this paper indicates that a significant proportion of bidders bid across competing auctions and that bidders tend to submit bids at auctions with the lowest standing bid. The paper also shows that winning bidders who bid across competing auctions pay lower prices than winning bidders who do not cross-bid. These findings jointly amount to the first evidence lending empirical support to competing auctions theory.
Download or read book Internet Auctions written by Ernan Haruvy and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet Auctions reviews recent empirical and theoretical works on internet auctions with a focus on internet auction design, formats, and features that are currently debated in the marketing literature.
Download or read book Players Making Decisions written by Zack Hiwiller and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game designers today are expected to have an arsenal of multi-disciplinary skills at their disposal in the fields of art and design, computer programming, psychology, economics, composition, education, mythology—and the list goes on. How do you distill a vast universe down to a few salient points? Players Making Decisions brings together the wide range of topics that are most often taught in modern game design courses and focuses on the core concepts that will be useful for students for years to come. A common theme to many of these concepts is the art and craft of creating games in which players are engaged by making meaningful decisions. It is the decision to move right or left, to pass versus shoot, or to develop one’s own strategy that makes the game enjoyable to the player. As a game designer, you are never entirely certain of who your audience will be, but you can enter their world and offer a state of focus and concentration on a task that is intrinsically rewarding. This detailed and easy-to-follow guide to game design is for both digital and analog game designers alike and some of its features include: A clear introduction to the discipline of game design, how game development teams work, and the game development process Full details on prototyping and playtesting, from paper prototypes to intellectual property protection issues A detailed discussion of cognitive biases and human decision making as it pertains to games Thorough coverage of key game elements, with practical discussions of game mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics Practical coverage of using simulation tools to decode the magic of game balance A full section on the game design business, and how to create a sustainable lifestyle within it
Download or read book Optimal Hand Evaluation in Competitive Bidding written by Darricades Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, Optimal Hand Evaluation, the author introduced a number of corrections to the Goren point count to reach "optimal" hand evaluation accuracy. That first book focused on non-competitive bidding situations where no further adjustments were needed as a result of the opponents' bidding. This book now deals with this specific topic. First, it challenges the very premise of the Law of Total Tricks and compares the results of its application "at the table" by world-class players to the effectiveness of the Optimal point count. Then, it reveals how to precisely quantify: - The point-count adjustments that should be applied to hands that are short or long in a suit bid by the opponents. - Which point-count adjustments should be made to honors. - How adjustments translate a hand's Offense to Defense ratio. - What adjustments apply to balanced hands. This book begins with an overview and two-page summary of the Optimal point count. The full rationale and statistical support data justifying the point count can be found in the first book, as well as over 100 example hands illustrating its accuracy.
Download or read book Putting Auction Theory to Work written by Paul Milgrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications. It is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided the creation of the new spectrum auction designs. Aimed at graduate students and professionals in economics, the book gives the most up-to-date treatments of both traditional theories of 'optimal auctions' and newer theories of multi-unit auctions and package auctions, and shows by example how these theories are used. The analysis explores the limitations of prominent older designs, such as the Vickrey auction design, and evaluates the practical responses to those limitations. It explores the tension between the traditional theory of auctions with a fixed set of bidders, in which the seller seeks to squeeze as much revenue as possible from the fixed set, and the theory of auctions with endogenous entry, in which bidder profits must be respected to encourage participation.
Download or read book Bidding Frenzy written by Gerald Häubl and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines how the intensity of the dynamic competitive interaction with other bidders in ascending auctions influences consumers' willingness to pay for auctioned products. It focuses on one important aspect of this interaction - the speed of competitor reaction. The key hypothesis is that having one's own bids reciprocated by competing bidders more quickly increases one's WTP in an auction. Evidence from five experiments demonstrates this effect and pinpoints the essential aspects of the psychological mechanism that underlies it. In particular, the effect of speed of competitor reaction on bidding behavior (1) is serially mediated by the perception that the auction is more intensely competitive and by a greater desire to win, (2) is distinct from the effects of time pressure and of the auction's duration or overall rate of progression, (3) is not driven by inferences about the auctioned product's market value, (4) is not qualified by the number of competing bidders nor due to any inferences about the latter, and (5) hinges on direct competitive interaction with other human bidders.
Download or read book Partnership Bidding written by Andrew Robson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridge Bidding written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book present some of the most important bridge bidding systems used used in duplicate bridge tournaments, detailing the most known bridge bidding system, Standard American Yellow Card, by using a logical sequential order for openings, answers, competitive bids and defensive play in order to help the players during the games. Much of the complexity in bridge arises from the difficulty of arriving at a good final contract in the auction. A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention. Standard American Yellow Card is a specific set of partnership agreements and conventions, using Standard American as a base. Standard American Yellow Card is a very specific collection of agreements, which can, of course, be modified and augmented by partnership agreement. In practical use, the term is often mis-used to refer to Standard American in general, or it could refer to a system that used SAYC as a base and made additional augmentations or changes to the base agreements.
Download or read book To Bid Or Not to Bid written by Larry Cohen and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To bid or not to bid -- the perennial dilemma in competitive auctions. The easy answer to the question lies in the correct use of the Law of Total Tricks. The LAW has been part of bridge literature since the 1950s, but it was in this book that Larry Cohen brought it to the attention of the majority of bridge players. Still the most lucid explanation of the LAW ever published, this is a book that every bridge player needs to own, to read, to re-read, and to study in order to improve their results.
Download or read book The Golden Rules of Competitive Auctions written by Julian Pottage and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition brings benefits, and over two–thirds of all auctions see both sides entering into the fray. Having a basic knowledge of how to get into or stay in the bidding is key to your success at the bridge table. This book covers all the rules likely to help you, and there are plenty of examples both for and against each one.
Download or read book Modeling Online Auctions written by Wolfgang Jank and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore cutting-edge statistical methodologies for collecting, analyzing, and modeling online auction data Online auctions are an increasingly important marketplace, as the new mechanisms and formats underlying these auctions have enabled the capturing and recording of large amounts of bidding data that are used to make important business decisions. As a result, new statistical ideas and innovation are needed to understand bidders, sellers, and prices. Combining methodologies from the fields of statistics, data mining, information systems, and economics, Modeling Online Auctions introduces a new approach to identifying obstacles and asking new questions using online auction data. The authors draw upon their extensive experience to introduce the latest methods for extracting new knowledge from online auction data. Rather than approach the topic from the traditional game-theoretic perspective, the book treats the online auction mechanism as a data generator, outlining methods to collect, explore, model, and forecast data. Topics covered include: Data collection methods for online auctions and related issues that arise in drawing data samples from a Web site Models for bidder and bid arrivals, treating the different approaches for exploring bidder-seller networks Data exploration, such as integration of time series and cross-sectional information; curve clustering; semi-continuous data structures; and data hierarchies The use of functional regression as well as functional differential equation models, spatial models, and stochastic models for capturing relationships in auction data Specialized methods and models for forecasting auction prices and their applications in automated bidding decision rule systems Throughout the book, R and MATLAB software are used for illustrating the discussed techniques. In addition, a related Web site features many of the book's datasets and R and MATLAB code that allow readers to replicate the analyses and learn new methods to apply to their own research. Modeling Online Auctions is a valuable book for graduate-level courses on data mining and applied regression analysis. It is also a one-of-a-kind reference for researchers in the fields of statistics, information systems, business, and marketing who work with electronic data and are looking for new approaches for understanding online auctions and processes. Visit this book's companion website by clicking here
Download or read book Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications written by Gerhard Illing and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading experts in industrial organization and auction theory examine the recent European telecommunication license auction experience. In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and substantial regulatory change. Because of their spectacular but often puzzling outcomes, these spectrum auctions attracted enormous attention and invited new research on the interplay of auctions, industry dynamics, and regulation. This book collects essays on this topic by leading analysts of telecommunications and the European auction experience, all but one presented at a November 2001 CESifo conference; comments and responses are included as well, to preserve some of the controversy and atmosphere of give-and-take at the conference.The essays show the interconnectedness of two important and productive areas of modern economics, auction theory and industrial organization. Because spectrum auctions are embedded in a dynamic interaction of consumers, firms, legislation, and regulation, a multidimensional approach yields important insights. The first essays discuss strategies of stimulating new competition and the complex interplay of the political process, regulation, and competition. The later essays focus on specific spectrum auctions. Combining the empirical data these auctions provide with recent advances in microeconomic theory, they examine questions of auction design and efficiency and convincingly explain the enormous variation of revenues in different auctions.
Download or read book The online auction market eBay Why is online auction a perfect competition market written by Angelika Brilz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Köln, language: English, abstract: This work deals with online auction. Domestic work is divided into four parts. In the first part, traditional auctions are defined in more detail. After the basics of the topic have been presented and the different auction types have been described, online auctions are worked out from this understanding in the second of this work and how online auctions deal with the traditional auctions Distinguish. In the third part of this work, different competitive markets are explained in order to deal with eBay. After the company was summarized, the fourth part of the work follows, where the German Auction Laws are discussed. The auction is a popular way to put used items up for sale over the internet. Anyone who buys goods at an online auction will then be delivered via the shipping route. With 177 million active users, eBay is one of the largest and most dynamic online auction houses in the world. But eBay is far from the only online auction house. In addition to eBay, the best-known charts of online auctions include MyHammer and Hood.de, as well as many other auction platforms.
Download or read book Tips on Competitive Bidding written by Mike Lawrence and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, Mike Lawrence published a series of short booklets entitled Topics on Bridge, offering tips on various aspects of cardplay and bidding for intermediate players. Now this material is being republished as a three-book series-revised, updated, and with new topics added, Topics covered in this volume: Overcalls, Overcalling in a Four-card Suit at the One-level, Responding to an Overcall, Responsive Doubles, The Takeout Double, Responding to a Takeout Double, Bidding Against an Opening INT, Bidding over Preempts, Balancing, Penalty Doubles Book jacket.
