auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The theoretical model predicts that with risk neutral agents all sales take … place in the auction rendering the negotiation prior to the auction obsolete. An experimental test of the model provides …

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 …

firms' risk attitudes and the fact that future market profits are uncertain so that winning an auction is like winning a …

firms' risk attitudes and the fact that future market prof-its are uncertain so that winning an auction is like winning a …

overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk and …. Indeed, we find that spite is a more convincing explanation for bidding behavior for the second-price all-pay auction. Not …

auction sites including eBay and General Motors Assistance Corporation. A buyer in a buy price auction can accept the buy … price to win with certainty and end the auction early. Intuitively, the buy price option may appeal to bidders who are risk … aversion and time preferences. We develop a private value model of bidder behavior in a buy price auction with a temporary buy …

auction - in a setting that extends Maskin and Riley (1984, Econometrica 52: 1473-1518) in three aspects: (i) the seller can … be risk averse, (ii) the bidders can have heterogeneous risk preferences, and (iii) the auction can have a binding … verifiable by deduction prior to the auction - the premium also benefits the seller and therefore leads to a Pareto improvement …