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We present evidence from 260,000 online auctions of second-hand cars to identify the impact of public reserve prices on … price than those of the average bidder, suggesting auction winners are not the marginal entrant. -- auctions ; regression …
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Electronic commerce has grown extraordinarily over the years, with online auctions being extremely successful forms of … trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … in Buy-It-Now auctions, as to this point little is known about how sellers set Buy-It-Now prices. We investigate into …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-No" format, it is the buyer. Both...
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experiment to study seller behavior in online auctions with a Buy-It-Now feature, where early potential bidders have the … invited eBay buyers and sellers into the lab to participate in a series of auctions on the eBay platform. We investigate how …
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Along the standard measures of price dispersion, this paper proposes a new method, the residual variance model, to examine the levels of price and price variation within and across 10 kinds of physically identical products on eBay UK. The results find that the price levels and price dispersions...
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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller will take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller...
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Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation — both in the time series and in the cross-section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...
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In eBay s Buy-it-Now auctions sellers can post prices at which buyers can purchase a good prior to an auction. We study … prices below those expected in second price auctions. Our proposed extension of the model results not only in a better fit of …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406561
We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407823