-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction implies adverse selection and relies substantially on commitment to … allocation and transfer rules. A pooling auction serves as a commitment device against ex-post opportunistic behavior and … alleviates adverse selection. It can earn the investor a higher expected payoff than a separating auction, even when consistency …

-dimensional auction, as the optimal scoring rule depends only on the price. … a simple design initially enhances competition in the auction. Moreover, the procurer cannot benefit from using a multi …

one potential buyer about the price of the good. If the negotiation fails to produce a sale, a second 'price sealed' bid … auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The theoretical model predicts that with risk neutral agents all sales take … place in the auction rendering the negotiation prior to the auction obsolete. An experimental test of the model provides …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the two auction techniques (discriminatory and uniform-price auctions) most … auction. Theoretical models arrive at different rankings for expected revenue; however, they do reveal the relationship … between the bids submitted and the auction technique. These results are confirmed both by 'laborator' experiments and the …

Shill bidding is a fraudulent in-auction strategy where a seller participates as a bidder in his own auctions. This is …

cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction …Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive …

. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction format in which …Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We …