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 …

A bidder may increase his bid over the course of an auction when (1) he becomes more certain about his private … return to the auction to submit a bid in a later period. …

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 …

technique that leads to a reduction in cost. Following the auction in the second stage of the game these firms compete against … technique is a private information to the concerned firm. In the model, the auctioneer is the government. Before the auction …, the government announces whether she will reveal the bids after the auction, which is her choice variable. This paper …

such procurement is an English auction followed by an auctioneer's option to engage in ultimatum bargaining with the winner … equilibrium strategy of exiting the auction at their costs and then accepting strictly profitable offers. Buyers generally … with auction prices when they should be invariant. We explain this deviation by modeling buyers' subjective posteriors …

-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 …