This study develops a novel 2-step hedonic approach, which is used to construct a price index for German paintings. This approach enables the researcher to use every single auction record, instead of only those auction records that belong to a sub-sample of selected artists. This results in a...

The European Commission is currently reviewing two major policy instruments which will pose major economic challenges and opportunities for EU power producers. First, the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is likely to include a high percentage of auctioning. Second, support schemes for...

Open market operations play a key role in allocating central bank funds to the banking system and thereby to steer short-term interest rates in line with the stance of monetary policy. Many central banks apply so-called “fixed rate tender” auctions in their open market operations. This note...

Der Beitrag untersucht die optimale Versteigerungsreihenfolge in sequentiellen Zweitpreisauktionen mit vertikal differenzierten Objekten.

In diesem Aufsatz steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, welche Potenziale Ausschreibungen und Auktionen in Netzsektoren besitzen, und welche netzspezifischen Probleme sich dabei ergeben, die bisher von der Auktionstheorie nicht oder nur unzulänglich behandelt worden sind. Es zeigt sich, dass...

Die rasche und umfassende Privatisierung der inflexiblen Staatsbetriebe gehört zu den dringendsten Aufgaben in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten; Privateigentümer können die Betriebe besser führen und sanieren als der Staat. Um die Staatsbetriebe privatisierungsfähig zu machen, sind klare...

Internet auctions for consumer are among the most popular and most successful business models in electronic commerce. Research so far, however, has focused on prerequisites and consequences of auctions as a marketing intstrument of suppliers. Even though it is a key success factor from a...

Internet auctions, such as those on eBay, are known for multiple bidding and sniping. Buyers send bids in the closing seconds of an auction, knowing that bids arriving after the closure of the auction are not counted. They also bid several times at the same auction. We model Internet auction as...

We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U.S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more small bidders, shift the allocation towards these...

This paper provides evidence of bounded rationality by large dealers in U.S. Treasury auctions. I argue that these dealers use a heuristic of yield-space bidding which leads to biases manifested in three ways: they submit dominated bids, i.e., those that could be improved without raising the...