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

tends to be limited. Competition is the single most important factor toward auction efficiency and anti-corruption. However …, and competition. With data on procurement auctions for electricity projects in developing countries, it is found that …

We model the uniform-price US Treasury security auction as a static symmetric game of incomplete information in which … each payer is a primary dealer who submits a demand schedule given two independent sources of private information – his pre-auction … we show how his pre-auction short position impacts his bidding behavior – in particular: the dealer's demand for the …

We extend Wilson (1979) share auction framework to model the uniform-price US Treasury auction as a two-stage multiple … its bidding behavior in handling the risk of being short-squeezed or face the winner curse in the post-auction market …

the spot market. -- capacity market ; procurement auction ; electricity market ; competitive equilibrium …