The authors investigate compliance behavior and revenue implications in simultaneous winner-pay and voluntary-pay auctions in charity and non-charity settings. In the voluntary-pay format, the seller asks all bidders to pay their own high bid, with voluntary payment compliance from losing...

We study cause-related auctions where a percentage of the dynamically determined purchase price of an item is donated to charity. Little is known about the effectiveness of such auctions. Charitable bidders who value donations to charity have an incentive to bid more aggressively in such...

A price matching guarantee (PMG) is a promise to match a competitor's lower price. A price beating guarantee (PBG) is a promise to beat that price. This study presents a large-scale controlled field experiment involving pairs of simultaneous auctions to examine the impact of the presence versus...