-unit, multi-bid uniform auction, modelled as a Bayesian game of incomplete information. At the auction each firm anticipates his … as their bidding strategies and it precludes the auction from generating a cost-effective allocation of permits, as it … would occur in simpler auction models. Auctioning tends to be more cost-effective than grandfathering when the firms' costs …

that a discriminatory auction design favoring low-wind-yield locations leads to a tradeoff between production costs and … auction levels intra-technology discrimination through the reference yield model leads to a reduction of consumer costs of …

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …

We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction and the second-price sealed-bid auction in a … winner's payment to an outside observer. We find that the first-price sealed-bid auction in which the winner's payment is …

procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory … experiment, we compare four different second-price auction formats for procuring a good. The four formats are a sealed …-bid auction and three di erent descending-clock auctions. We assume that a bidder's willingness-to-accept exceeds his willingness …

question of the value added of letting the sourcing process consist of both an auction and a negotiation stage, theoretically … auction is beneficial to the buyer compared to no communication and ex-ante communication. In a setting where the buyer and …

Using laboratory experiments, we compare the stability of bidding rings in the English auction and the first …-price sealed-bid auction in a heterogeneous-value setting. In both a re-matching condition and a fixed-matching condition, we … observe that biddings rings are more stable in the English auction than in the first-price sealed-bid auction. In both …