This paper presents the results of experiments carried out in two countries, Germany and Bulgaria, and for different … allocation rules (first vs. second price auction vs. fair division game). The data analysis of the sealed-bid, private value … bidding, truthful bidding, decision time, bid adjustments) as well as the efficiency rates and the price expectations. The …

We experimentally examine the collusive properties of two commonly used auctions: the English auction (EN) and the … first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSB). In theory, both tacit and overt collusion are always incentive compatible in EN while … both can be incentive compatible in FPSB if the auction is repeated and bidders are patient enough. We find that the …

such procurement is an English auction followed by an auctioneer's option to engage in ultimatum bargaining with the winner … equilibrium strategy of exiting the auction at their costs and then accepting strictly profitable offers. Buyers generally … with auction prices when they should be invariant. We explain this deviation by modeling buyers' subjective posteriors …

We conduct an experiment in which we auction the scarce rights to play the Proposer and Responder positions in … fees according to the auction price sequences observed in the auction treatment. With endogenous selection into ultimatum … games via auctions, we find that play converges to a session-specific Nash equilibrium and auction prices emerge which …

) players' behavior. In addition, our experiment suggests that before participating in the auction stage in our mechanism …, players may find which strategy is best in the auction …

question of the value added of letting the sourcing process consist of both an auction and a negotiation stage, theoretically … auction is beneficial to the buyer compared to no communication and ex-ante communication. In a setting where the buyer and …