procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory … experiment, we compare four different second-price auction formats for procuring a good. The four formats are a sealed …-bid auction and three di erent descending-clock auctions. We assume that a bidder's willingness-to-accept exceeds his willingness …

We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the … all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour …-bid auction in which the bidders’ payments are revealed outperforms the other mechanisms in terms of revenue, while this mechanism …

Our study compares individual and team bidding in standard auction formats: first-price, second-price and ascending …

In Buy-It-Now auctions, sellers can post a take-it-or-leave-it price offer prior to an auction. While the literature …