In the 19 th century, auctions became a widespread form of transaction for real estate in England. Contemporaries … formal and informal rules of the auction trade for real estate and argues that 19 th century real estate auctions did not …

Winning bidders in online auctions frequently fail to complete the transaction. Because enforcing bids usually is too … else equal, the availability of second-chance offers reduces amounts bid in auctions where there is a probability that a … to the idea of creating a deterrent against such behavior. Actual bidding in experimental auctions support these …

analyzes the bids and determines the winner. Many privacy preserving computation protocols for auctions have been proposed … this work, we propose efficient protocols for both first and second price sealed bid auctions with fairness against …

underperforms in terms of efficiency relative to the winner-pay auctions. …

Internet auctions, such as those on eBay, are known for multiple bidding and sniping. Buyers send bids in the closing … both sniping and multiple bidding. By submitting multiple bids, buyers co-ordinate between auctions, so that all objects …

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 … extends the theory of private value auctions with heterogeneous bidders to capture participation decisions, that can account …

This paper studies multi-attribute auctions in which a buyer seeks to procure a complex good and evaluate offers using … kinds of results. First, we characterize the set of equilibria in quasi-linear scoring auctions with multi-dimensional types …. In particular, we show that there exists a mapping between the class of equilibria in these scoring auctions and those in …