aggregate dispersed information. Another reason behind the frequent utilization of open auction formats may be that they … and in the potential activation of behavioral biases: (i) the ascending Vickrey auction, a closed format; and two open … formats, (ii) the Japanese-English auction and (iii) the Oral Outcry auction. Even though bidders react to information …

auction in the world. We find that there is a substantial price decline and suggest that the presence of a buyer's option …, whereby the winner of the first auction has the opportunity to buy the remaining units at the winning price, is a main …

We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction and the second-price sealed-bid auction in a … winner's payment to an outside observer. We find that the first-price sealed-bid auction in which the winner's payment is …

explanations for) positive assortative matching. …

auction - in a setting that extends Maskin and Riley (1984, Econometrica 52: 1473-1518) in three aspects: (i) the seller can … be risk averse, (ii) the bidders can have heterogeneous risk preferences, and (iii) the auction can have a binding … verifiable by deduction prior to the auction - the premium also benefits the seller and therefore leads to a Pareto improvement …