With the availability of a rich data set, we will develop a new method of conducting structural analysis of ascending auctions under the simplest valuation paradigm, the symmetric IPV model. The data set allows us to adopt a nonparametric approach and make strong interpretation of observed bids,...

We develop a simulation based approach that can determine whether the semiparametric efficiency bound of a dynamic discrete choice model with fixed effects is zero or not. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach by considering a simplified version of Keane and Wolpin's (1997) model, where...