Overbid

a compromise, a "modified Vickrey" where if the overbid is more than $10, the winning team would get the player for the cost of the second-highest bid, plus ❋ Unknown (2002)

Whether this persistent "overbid" in implied volatility will continue depends entirely on the risk appetites of traders and on the ability of the market to stay calm and gleeful - an increase in days like Wednesday and Thursday of last week would make options prices more nearly fairly valued. ❋ Condor Options (2009)

"The credit selloff looks like an overbid market returning to rational pricing," analysts at Amherst Securities Group LP wrote in a report this week. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A joint venture allows developers the freedom from worry about who will fund a project or if they overbid then who will come in with equity, he said. ❋ Shraddha Nair (2011)

But not as terrible as the woman on the Price Is Right must feel, the one who overbid her showcase by just $100. ❋ Andy McDonald (2011)

"Hopefully, there will be an overbid so there will be more money available to pay these administrative claims," said Stephen Karotkin of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a lawyer for Blockbuster. ❋ Joseph Checkler (2011)

And it would also decrease U.S. imports from other countries (as Chinese consumers overbid us more often), and increase U.S. exports to other countries (as we underbid Chinese producers more often). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last year, Manganese Ore India's IPO was overbid 56 times. ❋ Harsh Joshi (2011)

In fact, they are going to lose 200 million dollars on the Olympics...that they overbid all the other networks for! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Deep pocket operators, like AT & T and Verizon Wireless, overbid for spectrum and then pass along high costs to the consumer in the form of $40 monthly fees and cryptic calling plans. ❋ Andy Kessler (2010)

I overbid on all the images and by close of auction I am the only poor soul who bid at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For one thing, it was heavily front-loaded—that is, he overbid on the first stages of work to generate an early profit, which could be used to finance the rest of the work. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

A trading partner that has substantial dollar reserves can overbid his competitors and buy all existing certificates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mentally, it seemed people were irrationally willing to overbid for a large payout, and the likelier the payout, the more they'd overpay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Beijing, the centrally-controlled SOEs consistently overbid others. ❋ Yongheng Deng (2010)