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  2. Chinese auction - Wikipedia

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    Chinese auction is a type of the all-pay auction, where the probability of winning depends on the relative size of a participant's bid. [1] The choice of the winner is done by a lottery, whereby the bidders compete for a higher chance of winning. [1] It is also known as penny raffle, chance auction and tricky tray. [2] [3]

  3. White elephant gift exchange - Wikipedia

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    A man "steals" a gift in a white elephant gift exchange, while its previous owner is reluctant to relinquish it. A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party ...

  4. Auction - Wikipedia

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    An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described in the section about different types. The branch of economic theory dealing with ...

  5. Raffle - Wikipedia

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    A strip of common two-part raffle tickets. A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number. The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached ...

  6. All-pay auction - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In economics and game theory, an all-pay auction is an auction in which every bidder must pay regardless of whether they win the prize, which is awarded to the highest bidder as in a conventional auction. As shown by Riley and Samuelson (1981), [1] equilibrium bidding in an all pay auction with private information is revenue equivalent ...

  7. China Guardian - Wikipedia

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    China Guardian Auctions Co. Ltd., or simply China Guardian ( Chinese: 中国嘉德 ), is a mainland Chinese auction house that specialises in the auction of Chinese artwork of all types. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is particularly known for its sale of Chinese calligraphy and ink paintings. [ 4][ 5] First founded in May 1993 by Chen Dongsheng, [ 6] China ...

  8. Auction theory - Wikipedia

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    Auction theory is a branch of applied economics that deals with how bidders act in auctions and researches how the features of auctions incentivise predictable outcomes. Auction theory is a tool used to inform the design of real-world auctions. Sellers use auction theory to raise higher revenues while allowing buyers to procure at a lower cost.

  9. First-price sealed-bid auction - Wikipedia

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    A first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSBA) is a common type of auction. It is also known as blind auction. [1] In this type of auction, all bidders simultaneously submit sealed bids so that no bidder knows the bid of any other participant. The highest bidder pays the price that was submitted. [2] : p2 [3]