’ bid. Equilibrium behavior in the first-price auction is mostly unaffected but there are multiple equilibria in the second …- price auction. Consequently, comparative statics across price rules are equivocal. Experimentally, leaks in the first- price … auction favor second movers but harm first movers and sellers, as theoretically predicted. Low to medium leak probabilities …

In Buy-It-Now auctions, sellers can post a take-it-or-leave-it price offer prior to an auction. While the literature …

auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real … eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price …

does not effect their price decisions. Compared to an eBay auction without a BIN-price, the BIN-auction is more efficient …

formation efficiency in this setup to see how fast prices become informative about the final auction value. We find that prices … from their competitors' bidding behaviour and validates the choice of the agency to implement the auction in the present …

markets in silico, using electricity markets and on-line double auctions as illustrations. A monopoly sealed-bid auction is … examined in the tenth paper, and a new auction mechanism is evolved and analyzed. The chapter concludes that, as modeling the …

. Good auction design benefits from learning both between scholars and practitioners and across a series of auctions. Lessons … Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) when valuation synergies really matter. Third, by adapting to circumstances, such as moving over … failures by utilising sufficient expertise to appreciate the implications of complex auction design choices …

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 …

In this paper we introduce a new type of experiment that combines the advantages of lab and field experiments. The … experiment is conducted in the lab but using an unchanged market environment from the real world. Moreover, a subset of the … experiment to study seller behavior in online auctions with a Buy-It-Now feature, where early potential bidders have the …

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 …