Identification in Auctions With Selective Entry

Authors

• Matthew Gentry,

  1. Dept. of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, U.K.; m.l.gentry@lse.ac.uk

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• Tong Li

  1. Dept. of Economics, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B #351819, Nashville, TN 37235-1819, U.S.A.; tong.li@vanderbilt.edu

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  • We are grateful to a co-editor and three anonymous referees for their constructive comments that have greatly improved the paper. We also thank Yanqin Fan, Jeremy Fox, James Heckman, Martin Pesendorfer, and participants in seminars at Tillburg University, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Southern California, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, HKUST, Columbia University, UBC, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, Penn State University, and at the EC² Conference on Identification in Econometrics in Toulouse, December 2010, the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society in St. Louis, June 2011, the European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Oslo, August 2011, and the Identification and Inference in Econometrics Conference at Vanderbilt University, March 2012, for helpful comments and discussion. Support from the National Science Foundation (SES-0922109) is gratefully acknowledged. Previous versions of the paper were circulated under the title “Partial Identification in Auctions With Selective Entry.”