investigation into collusion and corruption in the Quebec construction industry launched in October 2009 to capture the end of this … cartel. I find that after this date, the two suspected firms i) were more likely to bid in the same auction and ii) submitted … significantly lower bids when they competed in the same auction. A structural model of entry and bidding shows that if the firms had …

A number of recent papers have proposed that a pattern of isolated winning bids may be associated with collusion. In … contrast, others have suggested that bid clustering, especially of the two lowest bids, is indicative of collusion. In this …, whose asphalt industry has not been the subject of collusion allegations. Our findings provide causal evidence that the …

This paper shows that the possibility of collusion between an agent and a supervisor imposes no restrictions on the set … implementable if the supervisor's information was public is also implementable when this information is private and collusion is …

cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction …

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

auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real … eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price …

settings in which the class of optimal mechanisms has a deferred acceptance auction representation which allows an … implementation with a descending-clock auction. Only in the case of symmetric projects do price clocks descend synchronously such …