-documented early or last-minutes bidding strategies, neither strategy takes into account the aspect of auction competition: at any … auction process and its competitive environment, our model is capable of accurately predicting an auction's price … a bidding framework around this model that determines the best auction to bid on and the best bid-amount. The best …

trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction …

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we … confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation … between emotions andbidding behavior in a second auction series. Our main results are: (i) the economic shock has asubstantial …