The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auctions use a simultaneous ascending auction design. Bidders bid … mitigate collusive bidding in the spectrum auctions, and then apply these ideas to the design of daily electricity auctions. …

This paper describes the signaling that occurred in many of the FCC spectrum auctions. The FCC's simultaneous ascending … auctions allowed bidders to bid on numerous communication licenses simultaneously, with bidding remaining open on all licenses …

In recent auctions for paging licenses, the Federal Communications Commission has granted businesses owned by …

a bad idea, and that a much better approach is to price Medicare supplies in competitive auctions. That is not … surprising. What is surprising is the degree of consensus that Medicare’s shift to auctions is fatally flawed and must be fixed … for the Medicare auctions to succeed in lowering costs while maintaining quality for medical equipment and supplies. …