1 Imagine an auction mechanism that is just like an ascending-bid auction, except that at the end,...

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1 Imagine an auction mechanism that is just like an ascending-bid auction, except that at the end, the winning bidder, the one who bid bmax, pays only bmax/2 rather than bmax.

Assuming all agents are rational, what is the expected revenue to the auctioneer for this mechanism, compared with a standard ascending-bid auction?

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