their auction end at the evening, when many potential buyers may be online. …

Shill bidding is a fraudulent in-auction strategy where a seller participates as a bidder in his own auctions. This is …

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …

In eBay s Buy-it-Now auctions sellers can post prices at which buyers can purchase a good prior to an auction. We study … predictions of a model by combining the real auction environment (eBay auction platform and eBay traders) with the techniques of … lab experiments. We observe that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading to auction …

the study indicate that studies are addressing especially five main areas, i.e., suitability of electronic reverse auction …

number of participants at each auction is observed. From this bound, however, we establish nonparametric identification of … the arrival process of bidders-the process that matches potential buyers to auction listings - which then allows us to …

auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real … eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price …

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 …