The Herodotus paradox

Casper de Vries; MR (Michael) Baye; DJ (Dan) Kovenock

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2011.07.004

The Herodotus paradox

Casper de Vries, MR (Michael) Baye, DJ (Dan) Kovenock

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The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction. We provide such an analysis for the two-player case with complete and incomplete information, and in so doing identify what we call the “Herodotus paradox.”

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	399-406
Number of pages	8
Journal	Games and Economic Behavior
Volume	74
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2011.07.004
Publication status	Published - 2012

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