The second-generation GSM spectrum auction in Germany is probably the most clear cut example of a low price outcome in … a simultaneous ascending-bid auction.The present paper gives an account of the events, describes the auction rules and …

This paper gives an account of events, and explains some systematic reasons of the UMTS auction flop in Switzerland … to import some keyingredients of the auction design employed in Germany and Austria. This would have assured higher …

The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more … competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and … presents a game theoretic explanation of observed events during the crucial phase of that auction, which have puzzled several …

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats … configurations and is statistically significant in most treatments. Revenue capture tends to be similar across auction formats in …

heterogeneity in the dispersion of private value components. I use the asymmetric ascending auction model of Hong and Shum (2003) to …

increasingly used today. We develop a reverse auction which accounts for particularities of intermittent renewable energy sources … auctions. We analyze incentives for bidders to manipulate the auction outcome and adapt the design to prevent this behavior …

This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer … auction participants, and as such these data are collectible due to neurological constraints on information processing. The …

-bidders' auction is similar to the Hawk-Dove game, which motivates to study symmetric NEs: Properties and comparative statics are …

constrained bidders. Succeedingly we propose an ascending auction mechanism that always results in an equilibrium allocation and … underdemanded set, or there is neither overdemand nor underdemand anymore. In the latter case the auction stops. In the former case …, precisely one item will be sold, the bidder buying the item leaves the auction and the auction continues with the remaining …