This paper analyzes the uniform price auctions for Italian Treasury securities in 1995-1996 and examines the revenue-efficiency of the auction mechanism, employing an extremely detailed dataset which includes all transactions made by the 41 primary dealers on the screen-based secondary market...

This paper analyzes the uniform price auctions for Italian Treasury securities in 1995-1996 and examines the revenue-efficiency of the auction mechanism, employing an extremely detailed dataset which includes all transactions made by the 41 primary dealers on the screen-based secondary market...

This paper studies bidder behavior using a detailed data set consisting of actual bid distributions in Norwegian Treasury bill auctions held during 1993-1998. The empirical results presented suggest that observed bidder behavior is consistent with an adjustment for the winner's curse. Bidders...

We review the main issues that arise in the design of treasury bill auctions and survey the relevant empirical literature. We also provide a detailed description of the actual design of these auctions in a sample of 42 industrial and developing countries

Behavior in the first three years of auctions for Pakistani treasury bills is studied. Bidding strategies rapidly converged to a consistent pattern after the auctions started in 1991. Factors are identified that influenced the expected profitability of auction participation, which was on average...