We study the relative performance of the first‐price sealed‐bid auction and the second-price sealed‐bid auction in a … laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour to an outside observer. We consider … reveals the winner’s payment to an outside observer. We find that the first‐price sealed‐bid auction in which the winner …

overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk and …In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for …. Indeed, we find that spite is a more convincing explanation for bidding behavior for the second-price all-pay auction. Not …

Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded …

fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through …

reserve price that would set a minimum price in allowance auctions. Opponents of an auction reserve price in the EU ETS have … expressed concern that a minimum auction price would interfere with economic operations in the market or would be tantamount to … and legal arguments for and against an auction reserve price. Our economic analysis concludes that an auction reserve …

information’ assumption. The ad value is characterized by a tractable analytical solution given observed auction parameters. Using … Yahoo! search auction data, we estimate value distributions and study the bidding behavior across product categories. We …

Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We … study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills …. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction format in which …

We report results from the first experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how …