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Second-Price Sealed-Bid Auction 0
A Second-Price Sealed-Bid Auction is a type of auction where bidders submit sealed bids without knowing the bids of the other participants, and the highest bidder wins but pays the second-highest bid price. This auction format encourages truthful bidding as each bidder's dominant strategy is to bid their true valuation of the item, since the final price is not determined by their own bid but by the next highest bid.
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