Auction theory is one of the most influential and widely studied topics in the economic theory over last fifty years. Trading rules in auctions are similar to rules in a game. Auctions might be divided into oral or written. In oral auction bidders hear each other’s bids and can make counteroffers. Each bidder knows his rivals. In written or closed auction bidders do not know how many rival bidders participate. A very important theorem in the theory of symmetric auction is the revenue equivalence theorem. This theorem predicts that expected seller revenue is independent of bidding rules. The symmetry assumption is violated in many real life auction environments and bidders often know how they differ. In practice, the auctioneer discriminates bidders in favour of selling to bidders whose values are drawn from lower distributions. Maskin and Riley (2000) showed that, when an auction is asymmetric, ”strong” buyers prefer the open auction, whereas ”weak” buyers prefer the closed auction. The revenue equivalence theorem does not concern an asymmetric auction. Every year in August at Janów Podlaski an auction of Arabian horses takes place. Our aim is to reinterpret that the Polish Arabian horse market is asymmetric.
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