invited eBay buyers and sellers into the lab to participate in a series of auctions on the eBay platform. We investigate how …

trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … auction market (the eBay platform and eBay traders) with the techniques of lab experiments. We find a striking link between … the information about agents provided by the eBay market institution and their behavior. Information about buyers is …

of anonymous internet trading platforms. We document an asymmetry in the feedback behavior on eBay, propose an …