So far no general exclusive frequency licenses have been granted in Poland through an auction. In the Regulatory … Strategy until 2015, the President of the Office of Electronic Communications pointed to auction as a method of choosing … companies which will be granted frequency licenses from 800 MHz band (so called digital dividend). Initially, the auction has …

The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more … competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and … presents a game theoretic explanation of observed events during the crucial phase of that auction, which have puzzled several …

Inspired by some spectrum auctions, we consider a stylized license auction with incumbents and one entrant. Whereas the … proactively encourages entry and restricts incumbent bidders. In this framework, an English clock auction gives rise to an … auction, an English clock auction with exit option that allows the entrant to annul his bid, and an English clock auction with …

This paper considers bidder behaviour in the United Kingdom s UMTS spectrum auction. Evidence is reviewed which shows … that some bidders in this auction did not bid straightforwardly in accordance with fixed valuations of the licenses. We go … strong direct evidence. We conclude that the rationalization of bidding in the United Kingdom s UMTS auction remains …