In this paper, we analyze a game called the lowest unique bid auction (LUBA). It is known that there is no closed form …

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 …

their auction end at the evening, when many potential buyers may be online. …