The theoretical literature on collusion in auctions suggests that the first-price mechanism can deter the formation of … likely to affect the bidding behavior in first-price (but not second-price) auctions. We test experimentally a setup in which … collusion in first-price and second-price auctions. Furthermore, failed collusion attempts distort the bidding behavior in the …

If a government auctions the right to market a good, continuity is likely to be of significant importance. In a …

activities. We use an economic experiment to examine whether the market efficiency of conservation auctions increases or … decreases with repetition. Theory predicts that repetition facilitates collusion among sellers in procurement auctions, while … effects, the latter has the upper hand; average bids decrease monotonically over the consecutive auctions. Since repetition …

Overbidding in auctions has been attributed to e.g. risk aversion, loser regret, level-k, and cursedness, relying on … psychological phenomenon that naturally applies to auctions. First, I show that type projection generates the main behavioral … phenomena observed in auctions, including increased sense of competition (\"loser regret\") and broken Bayesian updating …

Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk that is independent of buyers' private values … bidding with data from the field seems almost impossible. We conduct experimental first-price auctions that allow us to …

in strategic settings. This article studies the role of anchoring bias in private-value auctions. We test experimentally … biased beliefs. In Dutch auctions, the effect of a starting price, is negative. We demonstrate that the long …