At Internet auction sites like eBay, similar goods are often sold in a sequence of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides...

The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of...