Consider a sealed bid second price auction

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Consider a sealed-bid second-price auction where the private values of the buyers are independent and identically distributed with the uniform distribution over [0, 1].

Show that the strategy under which a buyer bids his private value does not strictly dominate all his other strategies.

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