. 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 …

a reservation bid for low-price auctions. Extending results from the empirical auction literature and employing a …This paper proposes a framework for demand estimation with data on bids, bidders' identities, and auction covariates … from a sequence of eBay auctions. First the aspect of bidding in a marketplace environment is developed. From the simple …

fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through …

reserve price that would set a minimum price in allowance auctions. Opponents of an auction reserve price in the EU ETS have … expressed concern that a minimum auction price would interfere with economic operations in the market or would be tantamount to … and legal arguments for and against an auction reserve price. Our economic analysis concludes that an auction reserve …

We study a symmetric private value auction with signaling, in which the auction outcome is used by an outside observer … exists in the second-price auction and the English auction. We establish there is no equivalence between these two auction … clock, affects signaling incentives differently in both auction formats, and thereby also the bidders’ incentives to overbid …

fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through …

This paper presents an empirical model of sponsored search auctions in which advertisers are ranked by bid and ad … information’ assumption. The ad value is characterized by a tractable analytical solution given observed auction parameters. Using … Yahoo! search auction data, we estimate value distributions and study the bidding behavior across product categories. We …