Vente aux enchères (Auctions)

Vente aux enchères (Auctions)

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Une "chasse aux sorcières" ("Witch hunt")

Condamnée par la justice française, Marine Le Pen qualifie sa condamnation de "chasse aux sorcières", dénonçant une persécution politique à son encontre.Traduction:Convicted by French courts, Marine Le Pen describes her sentence as a "witch hunt," alleging political persecution a ...  Show more

Crise au sein de l'Église française (Crisis Within the French Church)

Les évêques de France reportent à Avril la présentation du dispositif d'accompagnement des victimes adultes de violences sexuelles, suscitant des critiques.Traduction : The bishops of France postpone to April the presentation of the support system for adult victims of sexual viol ...  Show more

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Going Once, Going Twice: Auctions (Part 1)
Linear Digressions

The Google AdWords algorithm is (famously) an auction system for allocating a massive amount of online ad space in real time--with that fascinating use case in mind, this episode is part one in a two-part series all about auctions. We dive into the theory of auctions, and what ma ...  Show more

4500 - Mains privées (Private hands)
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Texte:
Une des rares peintures de Vincent Van Gogh encore dans des mains privées, “Scène de rue à Montmartre” a été vendue pour plus de 13 millions d'euros jeudi.

Traduction:
One of the few paintings by Vincent Van Gogh still in private hands, "Street Scene in Montma ...
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4328 - Reproduire et vendre (Reproduce and sell)
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Texte:
Le musée Rodin à Paris est le seul musée en France autorisé à reproduire et vendre certaines des oeuvres d'art présentées, afin qu'il puisse survivre sans aide de l'Etat.

Traduction:
The Rodin museum in Paris is the only museum in France that's allowed to repr ...
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Lecture 24 - Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse
Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory

We discuss auctions. We first distinguish two extremes: common values and private values. We hold a common value auction in class and discover the winner’s curse, the winner tends to overpay. We discuss why this occurs and how to avoid it: you should bid as if you knew that your ...  Show more