. In the preparation of the auction, two designs involving each a hybrid of an English and a sealed-bid auction were … suggested by the government: a discriminatory and a uniform price variant. We report an experiment on these two designs, and … also compare the results to those with a pure English auction. Both hybrids are similar in efficiency, revenue differences …

uneconomical use of the resource (e.g. stockpiling, wastage), to ensure a fair allocation between competing users and to forestall … congestion. The purpose of this paper is first to examine the procedures for the allocation of hertzian spectrum operating … from the two approaches that were actually used in Europe: the open ascending auction and the beauty contest, before …

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 …