The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more … competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and … presents a game theoretic explanation of observed events during the crucial phase of that auction, which have puzzled several …

considerations. It addresses the problems of finding the auction that yields the greatest expected revenues to the auctioneer and …) auctions are analysed. The analysis focuses on the strategic aspect of the bidding process, i.e. the game-theoretic auction …

This paper gives an account of events, and explains some systematic reasons of the UMTS auction flop in Switzerland …. Apart from general market developments, which could not have been anticipated, we argue that auction design which was … to import some key ingredients of the auction design employed in Germany and Austria. This would have assured higher …

design an experiment to study whether such commodity transfers can be viewed as investments based on trust and reciprocity …, or whether they rather resemble presents with distributional intentions. Our experiment essentially modifies Berg et al …

employees to accept lower wages as well? As an alternative to reviewing statistical data, we have performed an experiment with a … lower competitive wage in the second phase of an employment relationship that is known to both parties. The experiment casts …