Even though auctions are capturing an increasing share of commerce, they are typically treated in the theoretical economics literature as isolated. That is, an auction is typically treated as a single seller facing multiple buyers or as a single buyer facing multiple sellers. In this paper, we...

This paper investigates the importance of bidder types and product types in online charity auctions. Through a large-scale controlled field experiment, the authors identify charitable and non-charitable bidders, and investigate bidding activities in charity and non-charity auctions. Results show...

With increasing numbers of consumers in auction marketplaces, we highlight some recent approaches that bring additional economic, social, and psychological factors to bear on existing economic theory to better understand and explain consumer behavior in auctions. We also highlight specific...

Research on bidding in auctions has generally relied on the assumption of self-interested bidders. This work relaxes that assumption in the context of charity auctions. As understanding charitable motives has important implications for auction design and charities’ fundraising strategies, this...