In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from the demand to conduct punishment …, afterwards, subjects take part in a second price auction for the right to (physically) carry out the act of payoff reduction …

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we … confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation … between emotions andbidding behavior in a second auction series. Our main results are: (i) the economic shock has asubstantial …

We experimentally examine the effectiveness of antitrust policies against bidding rings in theEnglish auction (EN) and … the first-price sealed-bid auction (FP). We consider both traditionalantitrust policy (without a leniency program) and …

We experimentally examine the collusive properties of two commonly used auctions: the English auction (EN) and the … first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSB). In theory, both tacit and overt collusion are always incentive compatible in EN while … both can be incentive compatible in FPSB if the auction is repeated and bidders are patient enough. We find that the …

the use of these reverse auctions has grown rapidly over the past decades. For the (reverse) unit price auction experience …Many organizations use procurement tenders to buy large amounts of goods and services. Especially in the public sector … competition, incentives in unit price auction change in such a way that can make bid skewing disappear. …

implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis …

-price dimensions after the auction. Both auctions theoretically implement the surplus maximizing mechanism. Our experiment confirms …In this note, we experimentally examine the relative performance of price-only auctions and multi-attribute auctions …. We do so in procurement settings where the buyer can give the winning bidder incentives to exert effort on non …

This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights …

-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving …. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the …