. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the … anomaly. First, participation in the all-pay auction is substantially lower than in the other mechanisms while the average …

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we … confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation … between emotions andbidding behavior in a second auction series. Our main results are: (i) the economic shock has asubstantial …

tax it would pay for acquiring monopoly rights on a particular venture, posted publicly on a government-auction website … pain of losing the auction to a competitor. With minimal government intervention, the “invisible hand” of economic theory …

In an auction with a buy price, a seller offers bidders the opportunity to forgo competing in an auction by transacting … auction's reserve price and buy price, she does best to keep her aspirations sufficiently low by designing a no …-reserve auction with a buy price low enough that some bidder types would exercise it with positive probability in equilibrium. The …

-quantity pair, perfect collusion with equal sharing of profit is easier to sustain in the uniform price auction than in the … corresponding discriminatory auction. Moreover, capacity withholding may be necessary to sustain this outcome. Even when firms may …

The paper compares different auction formats for sale of a single patented innovation for budget constrained bidders … auction price and also to develop the new technology, the winner has incentives to pay a low amount for his unit to increase … equilibria for all studied auction mechanisms. These equilibria produce di¤erent consumer surplus and, thus, a central government …

. Enterprises embarking on a reverse auction initiative often start with their commodity purchases. We conduct laboratory … sealed bid auction and has the same symmetric Nash equilibrium. However, the request for quote allows identification of … strategies in the sell auction counterpart. Consequently we estimate that one-fourth of the subjects follow a simple mark-up rule …