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Does Laboratory Trading Mirror Behavior in Real World Markets? Fair Bargaining and Competitive Bidding on EBay

Bolton, Gary E.; Ockenfels, Axel - CESifo - 2008

We conducted a controlled field experiment on eBay and examined to what extent both social and competitive laboratory behavior is robust to institutionally complex real world markets with experienced traders, who selected themselves into these markets. EBay’s natural trading system provides...

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An Externality-Robust Auction: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Bartling, Björn; Netzer, Nick - CESifo - 2014

An auction is externality-robust if unilateral deviations from equilibrium leave the other bidders’ payoffs unaffected. The equilibrium and its outcome will then persist if certain types of externalities arise between bidders. One example are externalities due to spiteful preferences, which...

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Security Bid Auctions for Agency Contracts

Jun, Byoung Heon; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2013

A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents in the presence of … call a fixed wage contract, tends to outperform all other auctions, although it is not an optimal mechanism. However, by … adding output targets to hybrid share auctions one can (arbitrary closely) implement the optimal mechanism. …

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Innovation Contests

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...

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Reserve Price Formation in Online Auctions

Englmaier, Florian; Schmöller, Arno - CESifo - 2008

We use a unique hand collected data set of 6 258 auctions from the online football manager game Hattrick to study micro …

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A Sealed-Bid Auction that Matches the English Auction

Perry, Motty; Wolfstetter, Elmar G.; Zamir, Shmuel - CESifo - 2000

This paper analyzes a two-stage sealed-bid auction that is frequently employed in privatization, takeover, and merger and acquisition contests. This auction format yields the same expected revenue as the open ascending (English) auction, yet is less susceptible to preemptive bidding and collusion.

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Auctions with Imperfect Commitment when the Reserve May Serve as a Signal

Jun, Byoung Heon; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2014

If bidders are uncertain whether the auctioneer sticks to the announced reserve, some bidders respond by strategic non-participation, speculating that the auctioneer may revoke the reserve. However, the reserve inadvertently signals the auctioneer’s type, which drives a unique separating and a...

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Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Case of Favoritism

Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2012

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement …

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Core-stable Rings in Auctions with Independent Private Values

Biran, Omer; Forges, Francoise - CESifo - 2010

characteristic function, derived from the partition form game, is not empty. As an application, we study collusion in auctions in …

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Implementing Efficient Market Structure

Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2000

This article studies the design of optimal mechanisms to regulate entry in natural oligopoly markets, assuming the regulator is unable to control the behavior of firms once they are in the market. We adapt the Clark-Groves mechanism, characterize the optimal mechanism that maximizes the weighted...

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