In this dissertation, I explore bidders’ behavior in multiple auctions which are conducted sequentially or … auctions and show that the wildly-used assumption of proxy bidding is inappropriate in the multiple auction setting. The first … auctions are more likely to win and have higher payoffs than proxy bidders. The third essay studies the procurement auctions in …

CommunicationsCommission spectrum license auctions in the early nineties and continues to this day.In a setting in which goods are not …

This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first … essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy … explain the high frequency of bidders accepting BIN price, and may alsohelp explain the popularity of temporary BIN auctions …

In common-value auctions and contests economic agents often havevarying levels of information regarding the value of … informationin first-price, sealed-bid, common-value auctions. Bidders who observe a private signal tend to overbid relative to Nash … asymmetric information in one-shot common-valueall-pay auctions and lottery contests from both experimental and …