Online Appendix for “Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach”
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Index Sets. We let R denote the set of geographical regions indexed by r (recall that each geographical region contains several TUs). We let Af be the set of packages on which firm f places bids. They are to distinguish from A in case of missing bids (unobserved bids) by firm f . Arf ⊆ Af represents the set of packages in Af that contain at least one TU in region r. Finally, we let |a| denote the number of TUs in package a, and we let Af and Arf denote the number of packages in the sets Af and Arf , respectively.
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