Within the independent private-values paradigm, we demonstrate nonparametric identification of Dutch and first-price, sealed-bid auction models when bidders are asymmetric. We also demonstrate that, in the presence of a binding reserve price, methods for estimating the distribution of valuations...

With the availability of a rich data set, we will develop a new method of conducting structural analysis of ascending auctions under the simplest valuation paradigm, the symmetric IPV model. The data set allows us to adopt a nonparametric approach and make strong interpretation of observed bids,...

A correctly specified time series model can be used to transform the data set to obtain an i.i.d. sequence of random variables, assuming that the true parameter values are known. In reality, however, one only has an estimated model and must therefore address the sampling error associated with...