of a multi-object auction. After the auction either all bids or only the prices to be paid are revealed to all firms … bidders' costs generally depends on the type and fierceness of the market competition, the specific auction format, and the …

trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … sellers to post prices at which buyers can purchase a good prior to the auction. Even though, buyer behavior is well studied … auction market (the eBay platform and eBay traders) with the techniques of lab experiments. We find a striking link between …

effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for …-price auction. We characterize Bayesian Nash equilibria such that both mechanisms are payoff-equivalent and induce the same efforts … and innovations. In these equilibria, signaling in the entry auction does not occur since contestants play a simple …

in predicting whether or not an artwork sells at auction, (3) there is little supporting evidence for the widespread …

-cutting ; Public procurement ; First-price auction ; Experiment …

first-price auction which do not have any minimum price. We find that winning prices of this new institution (i) coincide … with the ones of the standard first-price auction and are close to the production cost under our identical cost condition …, and (ii) are higher than the ones of the standard first-price auction and diverge from the lowest production cost under …

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 …