The Internet's computational power and flexibility have made auctions a widespread and integral part of both consumer and business markets. Though online auctions are a multi-billion dollar annual activity, with a growing variety of sophisticated trading mechanisms, scientific research on them...

The Internet has made auctions a common and integral part of the way commerce is conducted today. In both the consumer and business markets the applicability of auction-based trading mechanisms has been expanded by the computational power and flexibility the Internet makes available. There is...

Internet auctions for consumers' goods are an increasingly popular selling venue. Many sellers, instead of offering their entire inventory in a single auction, split it into sequential auctions of smaller lots, thereby reducing the negative market impact of large lots. Information technology...

Many firms in the business-to-consumer market sell identical products online using auctions and posted prices at the same time. In this paper, we develop and analyze a model of the key trade-offs sellers face in such a dual-channel setting built around the optimal choice of three design...