approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …

In a field experiment, we study the revenue-generating properties of premium auctions. In a premium auction, the runner … that the relative performance of premium auctions compared to standard auction formats is context-specific. In the … experiment, we compare two types of premium auctions with the standard Vickrey auction selling high-quality, limited …

This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer … auction participants, and as such these data are collectible due to neurological constraints on information processing. The …

-bidders' auction is similar to the Hawk-Dove game, which motivates to study symmetric NEs: Properties and comparative statics are …

constrained bidders. Succeedingly we propose an ascending auction mechanism that always results in an equilibrium allocation and … underdemanded set, or there is neither overdemand nor underdemand anymore. In the latter case the auction stops. In the former case …, precisely one item will be sold, the bidder buying the item leaves the auction and the auction continues with the remaining …

-price dimensions after the auction. Both auctions theoretically implement the surplus maximizing mechanism. Our experiment confirms …

auction in the world. We find that there is a substantial price decline and suggest that the presence of a buyer's option …, whereby the winner of the first auction has the opportunity to buy the remaining units at the winning price, is a main …