's decision-making process. Using the Taxi Management System implemented by Singapore Changi Airport on December 25, 2009 as a …. Specifically, we use a proprietary dataset on GPS trajectory of two-thirds of taxis in Singapore in 2009 and 2010 to construct …

auction outcomes. To establish causality, we exploit multiple discontinuities in the relationship between reserve prices and … vehicle characteristics to present RD estimates of reserve price effects on auction outcomes. Our first set of results show … that, in line with the robust predictions of auction theory, an increase in reserve price decreases the number of bidders …

examine the effect of increased competition on auction performance: We find that increased competition reduced bidder surplus … aggressive bidding. Counterfactuals establish that as competition increases, concerns regarding auction format play a smaller …

their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … show that sniping in a fixed deadline auction can occur even at equilibrium in auctions with private values, as well as in … that apply the automatic extension rule. The strategic differences in the auction rules are reflected in the field data …

examine the effect of increased competition on auction performance: We find that increased competition reduced bidder surplus … aggressive bidding. Counterfactuals establish that as competition increases, concerns regarding auction format play a smaller …

This paper empirically tests auction theory by examining how the stock market evaluates the outcome of open-bid English … surrounding actual auction events, and empirically isolate the influence of conflicting auction theory predictions using data from … expert opinion around auction events, actual auction event and outcome data, and stock market data. The empirical findings …

. The laboratory of our study is the recent collapse of the auction rate securities (ARS) market. Using a comprehensive … dataset constructed from auction reports and intraday transactions data on municipal ARS, we present quantitative evidence … that auction dealers acted at their own discretion as “market makers” before the market collapsed. We show that this …