We offer experimental and theoretical evidence that large, sealed-bid, multi-unit common value auctions for assets with substantial price uncertainty may be improved through hybrids with a separate retail tranche or ‘public pool.' The auctions in our laboratory experiments incorporate initial...

We study the impact of colors of paintings on prices in the art auction market and incorporate color attributes of non-figurative paintings in pricing models. A one standard deviation increase in the percentages of blue (red) hue leads to premiums of 10.63% (4.20%). We also conduct laboratory...

This is the first study to test for a winner's curse in a bubble market. Our hand-collected sample comprises the entire sequence of bids and the experience of the winning bidder at Irish residential real estate auctions, prior to the collapse of the bubble. Portfolios of practitioner-selected...

We employ a sample of 201 freeze-out tender offers (offers of controlling shareholders to buy all public shares) in Israel to examine how investors' decision (to accept or reject the offer) is influenced by alternative reference prices, some of which are commonly specified in freeze-out offers....

We present the first direct evidence of algorithmic imprints during batch auctions. Order anticipation is an integral part of high-frequency traders' strategies. Hence, some participants may have economic incentive to encrypt noise in the data. We use machine learning to identify five types of...

This study provides an empirical test of the Bolton, Freixas and Shapiro (2012) credit ratings model using data from art auctions. Our empirical work discovers that, despite the fact that art and bonds belong to totally different asset classes, financial intermediaries and investors behave in...

The underpricing of initial public offerings is a well-documented fact of empirical equity market research. Theories explain this underpricing with market imperfections. We study three empirically relevant IPO mechanisms under almost perfect market conditions in the laboratory: a stylized book...

We study the behavioral dynamics of limit orders in simultaneous experimental call-auction markets with multiple multiperiod lived securities. As analytical decision variable we use excess bids; the number of submitted bids minus the number of offers. The feedback variable is (excess) return....

This is the first study to test for a winner's curse in a bubble market. Our hand-collected sample comprises the sequence of bids and the experience of the winning bidder at Irish residential real estate auctions, prior to the collapse of the bubble. Portfolios of practitioner- and hedonic...

Based on an axiomatically derived provision rule allowing community members to endogenously determine which, if any, public project should be provided, we perform experiments where (i) not all parties benefit from provision, and (ii) the projects' costs can be negative. In the tradition of legal...