investigate several puzzles from the recent auctions literature. Our results suggest that: (1) the reputation of an artist and the … provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price … in predicting whether or not an artwork sells at auction, (3) there is little supporting evidence for the widespread …

bid on prices, but also received points for three proxies of the quality of their services: their reputation, a … scoring weights of the quality items result in higher price bids, particularly of WTW-firms that are bidding for the first … time as entrants. For the WTW-firms that won the procurements, we find a higher weight for both the reputation and the …

at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … auction …

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and …

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position … Netherlands, and this may lead to a stronger incentive to naturalise for workers with a temporary contract …

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …