Snipers, Shills, and Sharks : eBay and Human Behavior

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. English and Vickrey Auctions -- Chapter Two. From Vickrey to eBay -- Chapter Three. eBay Strategies Observed -- Chapter Four. What If eBay Were First-Price? -- Chapter Five. The Signals that Sellers Send -- Chapter Six. Prices! -- Chapter Seven. Transgressions -- Chapter Eight. Epilogue -- Appendix A Vickrey’s Genesis -- Appendix B Riley and Samuelson’s Optimal Auctions -- Appendix C Myerson’s Optimal Mechanisms -- Appendix D Laboratory Evidence: A Summary -- REFERENCES -- INDEX