from a sequence of eBay auctions. First the aspect of bidding in a marketplace environment is developed. Form the simple …

simulated data and to a carefully collected dataset from eBay with bids and covariates from 1000 coin auctions. It is …

of anonymous internet trading platforms. We document an asymmetry in the feedback behavior on eBay, propose an …

eBay's feedback mechanism is considered crucial to establishing and maintaining trust on the world's largest trading … description of the institutional setup of eBay's feedback mechanism, including recent changes to it. Most importantly, buyers now …

German eBay. Acting as a seller, we offer Amazon gift cards with face values of up to 500 Euro. Randomly arriving buyers, the … subjects of our experiment, make price offers according to eBay rules. Using a novel decomposition method, we infer offered …

observables. Our structural estimates enable us to explore information rents and optimal reserve prices on eBay. …

enforce German VAT law via a liability of platform operators (like Amazon and eBay). The consequences of this regulatory …

We investigate experimentally on eBay how sellers set prices in "Buy-It-Now" (BIN) auctions. We find that the eBay … information available on eBay about buyer experience and bidding behavior correlates with the observed price deviation. Sellers … does not effect their price decisions. Compared to an eBay auction without a BIN-price, the BIN-auction is more efficient …

Using data from a large-scale sales campaign on eBay, I show that successful auction customers punish the seller …