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Bidder Participation and Information in Currency Auctions

By Rafael Romeu, Lawrence Ausubel

August 1, 2005

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Rafael Romeu, and Lawrence Ausubel. Bidder Participation and Information in Currency Auctions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper studies the participation and performance of sophisticated versus unsophisticated auction participants in an environment with numerous bidders, uncertainty, and asymmetric information. We examine multi-unit, pay-as-bid, currency auctions conducted by the Central Bank of Venezuela. We find that sophisticated bidders outperform their less sophisticated rivals during periods of high volatility, apparently as a result of their superior informationgathering ability. The result is consistent across both quantity (sophisticated bidders win more market share) and price (sophisticated bidders pay lower premiums). The result is consistent with the view that a pay-as-bid auction format may be detrimental to participation by less-informed bidders.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Currency markets, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Money, Securities markets

Keywords: Asymmetric information, Auctions, Bank sophistication, Bidding strategy, Currencies, Currency auctions, Currency markets, Descriptive statistics, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Exchange rates, Inventory dev., Lag Inv. Dev, Lag Inv. dev., Market share, Number of bidder, Order flow effect, Pay-as-bid auctions, Securities markets, Sophistication measure, Standard deviation, U.S. dollar, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    46

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2005/157

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2005157

  • ISBN:

    9781451861761

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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