We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction … of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue, however, that auction markets deserve a separate treatment. Indeed we …

In this paper the sequence of winning bids in the public auction of used cars in New Jersey is examined for the … sale. In a further contrast to many other studies, these data indicate that the prices tend to increase as the auction …

would bid in a first-price auction. 3) Buyers' expected utilities in an all-pay auction are lower than in a first …-price auction. 4) The seller's expected payoff in an all-pay auction may be either higher or lower than in the risk neutral case. 5 …) The seller's expected payoff in an all-pay auction may be either higher or lower than in a first-price auction. …

each round of the auction are implicitly defined (pointwise) by a system of nonlinear equations so that conditions for the … develop an econometric model thus extending the literature on structural estimation of auction models Finally an empirical … example illustrates how equilibrium learning affects bidding during the course of the auction. …

This paper analyzes an all-pay auction where the winner is determined according to the sum of the bid and a handicap …' of the equilibrium strategy in an all-pay auction without handicaps. The paper also discusses the allocation rule …

from auction alternatives in recent years, despite significantly lower costs in both direct fees and initial underpricing … when using the auction mechanism. This paper shows that in the French market, where the frequency of book-building and …

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we … confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation … between emotions andbidding behavior in a second auction series. Our main results are: (i) the economic shock has asubstantial …

and organizational challenges. This work provides an auction-based coordination mechanism that enables the allocation and …