With a laboratory experiment, we study the impact of buy-options and the corresponding buy-price on revenues and …-prices, bidders are reluctant to bid above the option price (even though the option is no longer available once an auction has started …

We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction and the second-price sealed-bid auction in a … laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behavior to an outside observer. We consider two … winner's payment to an outside observer. We find that the first-price sealed-bid auction in which the winner's payment is …