The purpose of this paper is to compare the two auction techniques (discriminatory and uniform-price auctions) most … auction. Theoretical models arrive at different rankings for expected revenue; however, they do reveal the relationship … between the bids submitted and the auction technique. These results are confirmed both by 'laborator' experiments and the …

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

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

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 …

-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction implies adverse selection and relies substantially on commitment to … allocation and transfer rules. A pooling auction serves as a commitment device against ex-post opportunistic behavior and … alleviates adverse selection. It can earn the investor a higher expected payoff than a separating auction, even when consistency …

a simple design initially enhances competition in the auction. Moreover, the procurer cannot benefit from using a multi …-dimensional auction, as the optimal scoring rule depends only on the price. …

trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction …

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 …

’ bid. Equilibrium behavior in the first-price auction is mostly unaffected but there are multiple equilibria in the second …- price auction. Consequently, comparative statics across price rules are equivocal. Experimentally, leaks in the first- price … auction favor second movers but harm first movers and sellers, as theoretically predicted. Low to medium leak probabilities …