Showing 1 - 10 of 1,038
The paper proposes a simple model of auctions with an impatient seller who chooses the reserve price and the buy-it-now (BIN) price to maximize revenue. The three main sales channels in the online auction (the pure auction, the BIN auction, and the fixed-price sale) are each shown to be an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998430
This research examines how the intensity of the dynamic competitive interaction with other bidders in ascending auctions influences consumers' willingness to pay for auctioned products. It focuses on one important aspect of this interaction – the speed of competitor reaction. The key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907025
With $40BB in annual gross merchandise volume, electronic auctions comprise a substantial and growing sector of the retail economy. Using unique data on Celtic coins, we estimate a structural model of buyer and seller behavior via MCMC with data augmentation. Results indicate that buyer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767203
Little research has been conducted on a common phenomenon in today’s online environment: the concurrent selling of identical products in online auctions. To fill this gap, the current research proposes a game-theoretical model to analyze the seller’s optimal strategy for selling two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310509
Beauty contests are auction mechanisms used to buy-or-sell differentiated products. Beauty contests are widely used in procuring welfare-to-work projects, freelance services, in selling online ads, in real-estate transactions, and in hiring, dating/marriage decisions. Unlike price-only auctions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039177
This study investigates the reference price effect of historical price lists - which are provided in the auction description - on ending prices. This paper estimates and compares three different theories for the reference price effect of price lists: adaptation-level theory, range theory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262855
Retailers selling items through Internet auctions frequently use buy-now prices (BNPs), which allow the immediate selling of an item to consumers at a fixed price. Previous research has proposed several theories of the usage of BNPs by bidders. We study the usage of BNPs from a seller's point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028181
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706633
We develop a network-flow approach for characterizing interim-allocation rules that can be implemented by ex post allocations. Our method can be used to characterize feasible interim allocations in general multi-unit auctions where agents face capacity constraints, both ceilings and floors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316879
The buyer solicits bids from suppliers with different cost distributions defined by their capacities. The expected market share of each supplier is the ratio of its capacity to the industry capacity. The buyer's optimal reserve price declines with increases in the concentration of the industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318342