Ockenfels, Axel; Roth, Alvin E. - 2003
In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit … their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … second price internet auctions, in which very late bids have a positive probability of not being successfully submitted, and …
