Consumer bidding is common in a wide variety of markets. An important source of friction in many markets with bidding is the cost of participation. We investigate the impact of participation costs on bidder entry and bidding behavior using incentive-compatible laboratory experiments with...

Name-your-own-price is a pricing mechanism where the buyer instead of the seller determines the price, because the buyer makes a bid at a certain price, which the seller can either accept or reject. Based on consumers' bidding behavior at a name-your-own-price seller, we develop and empirically...