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 …

A comprehensive book on combinatorial auctions?auctions in which bidders can bid on packages of items. The book … by Vernon Smith, an introduction to combinatorial auctions, and twenty-three cross-referenced chapters in five parts … testing the performance of combinatorial auctions, including simulation and experiment. Part V considers four important …

individual items. Computer scientists are interested in combinatorial auctions because they are concerned with the expressiveness … mathematical programming, who are fascinated by the idea of applying these tools to auctions. Auctions have been studied … extensively by economists, of course. Thus, the newly emerging field of combinatorial auctions lies at the intersection of …