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Electronic commerce has grown extraordinarily over the years, with online auctions being extremely successful forms of … trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … in Buy-It-Now auctions, as to this point little is known about how sellers set Buy-It-Now prices. We investigate into …
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to making an auction choice impacts their choice decision and/or the outcome of the auctions. The results show a strong …
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The conventional wisdom in the auction design literature is that first price sealed bid auctions tend to make more … money while ascending auctions tend to be more efficient. We re-examine these issues in an environment in which bidders are … 'overentry' into the ascending auctions. …
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We study the alternating-offers bargaining problem of assigning an indivisible and commonly valued object to one of two players in return for some payment among players. The players are asymmetrically informed about the object's value and have veto power over any settlement. There is no...
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bidders could resolve this anomaly the claim that risk aversion drives overbidding in first price auctions is somewhat …
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experiment to study seller behavior in online auctions with a Buy-It-Now feature, where early potential bidders have the … invited eBay buyers and sellers into the lab to participate in a series of auctions on the eBay platform. We investigate how …
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This paper analyzes the trade of an indivisible good within a two-stage mechanism, where a seller first negotiates with one potential buyer about the price of the good. If the negotiation fails to produce a sale, a second 'price sealed' bid auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The...
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We study the alternating-offer bargaining problem of sharing a common value pie under incomplete information on both sides and no depreciation between two identical players. We characterise the essentially unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium of this game which turns out to be in gradually...
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We consider a Rothschild-Stiglitz-Spence labour market screening model and employ a centralised mechanism to coordinate the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an employment office or head hunter. In a centralised...
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We address the scheduling problem of reordering an existing queue into its efficient order through trade. To that end, we consider individually rational and balanced budget direct and indirect mechanisms. We show that this class of mechanisms allows us to form efficient queues provided that...
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