We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U ….S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … extends the theory of private value auctions with heterogeneous bidders to capture participation decisions, that can account …

We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U ….S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … extends the theory of private value auctions with heterogeneous bidders to capture participation decisions, that can account …

In the US spectrum auctions which allocate radio frequency rights to the private sector, firms are allowed to form … reinstated in future frequency auctions. My result corroborates findings of earlier empirical studies on joint bidding, conducted … in other types of auctions …

Bidding in the last seconds or minutes of an auction is a common strategy in Internet auctions with fixed end …-times. This paper examines the three explanations of late bidding in eBay auctions that survived the first scrutiny in Roth and …