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Auction Modeling

auctionr

A package for R to estimate private-value auction models while allowing for unobservable auction-specific heterogeneity.

Installation

# Install auctionr from CRAN
install.packages("auctionr")

# Or the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("remotes")
# library(remotes)
install_github("ajmack/auctionr", build_vignettes = T)

Getting started

There are two functions available in the package:

library(auctionr)

set.seed(100)
dat <- auction_generate_data(obs = 100, mu = 10, alpha = 2, sigma = 0.2,
                             beta = c(-1,1), new_x_mean= c(-1,1), new_x_sd = c(0.5,0.8))

res <- auction_model(dat,
                    init_param =  c(8, 2, .5, .4, .6),
                    num_cores = 1,
                    method = "BFGS",
                    control = list(trace=1, parscale = c(1,0.1,0.1,1,1)),
                    std_err = TRUE)
## initial  value 1339.327262 
## iter  10 value 434.301377
## iter  20 value 410.711195
## final  value 410.710822 
## converged
## 
res
## 
## Estimated parameters (SE):                             
##   mu      11.012673 (1.152635)
##   alpha    1.752769 (0.185499)
##   sigma    0.204230 (0.035286)
##   beta[1] -0.920617 (0.057040)
##   beta[2]  1.068096 (0.040026)
## 
## Maximum log-likelihood = -410.711

For further information

Background and details about the model implemented here are available in Mackay, Alexander. 2020. Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions..

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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