trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction …

auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The theoretical model predicts that with risk neutral agents all sales take … place in the auction rendering the negotiation prior to the auction obsolete. An experimental test of the model provides …

cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction …

In Buy-It-Now auctions, sellers can post a take-it-or-leave-it price offer prior to an auction. While the literature …

. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction format in which …

In eBay s Buy-it-Now auctions sellers can post prices at which buyers can purchase a good prior to an auction. We study … predictions of a model by combining the real auction environment (eBay auction platform and eBay traders) with the techniques of … lab experiments. We observe that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading to auction …

auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real … eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price …

trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … sellers to post prices at which buyers can purchase a good prior to the auction. Even though, buyer behavior is well studied … auction market (the eBay platform and eBay traders) with the techniques of lab experiments. We find a striking link between …