The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of Canada's 700 MHz spectrum auction, which took place at the … beginning of 2014. The auction format adopted by the Canadian regulator was the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA). In Section 1 …, we review the band plan for Canada's 700 MHz spectrum auction. We discuss the reasons and benefits from the band plan …

The Combinatorial Clock Auction is a two-stage auction format, which has been used to sell spectrum licenses worldwide … in the recent years. It draws on a number of elegant ideas inspired by economic theory. A revealed preference activity …, then the auction is fully efficient. Unfortunately, bidders might neither bid straightforward in the clock phase nor …