A seller choosing between auctioning online and live faces a tradeoff: lower transaction costs online against more rents left with the bidders. We model this tradeoff, and apply the theory to auctions of art. The crucial parameter for whether the seller does better online than live is not the...

A seller choosing between auctioning online and live faces a tradeoff: lower transaction costs online against more rents left with the bidders. We model this tradeoff, and apply the theory to auctions of art. The crucial parameter for whether the seller does better online than live is not the...

We introduce a general purpose data library developed at the Center for Advanced Research in Finance and the Computing Services at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tokyo for empirical research of the financial markets in Japan. This data library (located at...

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in uniform price double auctions among buyers and sellers with a unit demand and supply who receive private signals independently and identically distributed conditional on the unknown state with the monotone...

Many business and policy problems, such as allocation of spectrum rights and financial assets, involve allocation of heterogeneous objects among players with superadditive values. This paper uses laboratory experiments to study core-selecting auctions (clock-proxy auctions of Ausubel, Cramton,...

In this paper I first present a new convergence result which will derive an optimal auction mechanism as a limit of standard nonlinear pricing mechanisms. For example, an optimal auction mechanism of Myerson (1981) will be explicitly derived as a limit of nonlinear pricing mechanisms by Mussa...