asymmetric, multi-object, all-pay auction framework in Bodoh-Creed and Hickman (2014). We pay 5th through 8th grade students …

The combinatorial clock auction is becoming increasingly popular for large-scale spectrum awards and other uses …, replacing more traditional ascending or clock auctions. We describe some surprising properties of the auction, including a wide … the auction separates allocation and pricing, so that bidders are asked to make decisions that cannot possibly affect …

We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating … between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and … and auction formats without requiring instruments or estimation of a complex structural model. We demonstrate the approach …

-auto auctions, an $80 billion industry where buyers and sellers participate in alternating-offer bargaining when the auction price … fails to reach a secret reserve price. Using 270,000 auction/bargaining sequences, this study nonparametrically estimates …

Bidders' risk attitudes have key implications for choices of revenue-maximizing auction formats. In ascending auctions … entry costs but contains exogenous variations of potential competition and auction characteristics. In the first scenario … equilibrium entry probabilities vary with observed auction characteristics and potential competition. We also show identification …

data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research …-now options) in online auctions, as well as some of the literature dealing with online-auction design (including stopping rules …