. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the … anomaly. First, participation in the all-pay auction is substantially lower than in the other mechanisms while the average …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …

approached about 4500 households, each participating in an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution … mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households in the all-pay auction and the lottery competed for a … prize. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory, it did not …

approached about 4500 households, each participating in an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution … mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households in the all-pay auction and the lottery competed for a … prize. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory, it did not …

approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …

We consider competitive bidding for a business license, via an open ascending-price auction, between two symmetric …

bids become due. It is shown that when bidders experience identity dependent externalities and auction participation is … exogenous, then for a large class of standard auction mechanisms, a policy of revelation serves to realize a higher surplus … auction allocation in a more ex-post efficient manner. Furthermore, it is shown that the policy of revelation increases both …