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cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction …
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In Buy-It-Now auctions, sellers can post a take-it-or-leave-it price offer prior to an auction. While the literature …
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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 …
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experiment, we compare four different second-price auction formats for procuring a good. The four formats are a sealed … procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory …-bid auction and three di erent descending-clock auctions. We assume that a bidder's willingness-to-accept exceeds his willingness …
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In a lab experiment, we analyze the benefits of increasing competition on auction platforms hosting multiple …
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compared to any single-stage auction. Finally we derive the optimal efficient two-stage mechanism. …
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We study the role of commitment in a first-price auction environment. We devise a simple two-stage model in which … first-price auction both theoretically and experimentally. While theory suggests that the offers and the auctioneer …'s revenue should be higher in a standard first-price auction compared to the first-price auction with renegotiation, we cannot …
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In auctions bidders are usually assumed to have rational expectations with regards to their winning probability. However, experimental and empirical evidence suggests that agent's expectations depend on direct utility stemming from expectations, resulting in optimism or pessimism. Optimism...
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all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour …We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the …-bid auction in which the bidders’ payments are revealed outperforms the other mechanisms in terms of revenue, while this mechanism …
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Auctions with endogenous rationing have been introduced to stimulate competition. Such (procurement) auctions reduce the volume put out to tender when competition is low. This paper finds a strong negative effect of endogenous rationing on participation when bid-preparation is costly,...
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