data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research …-now options) in online auctions, as well as some of the literature dealing with online-auction design (including stopping rules …

consumer search on the internet. The extensive nature of the eBay data allows us to examine a rich and detailed set of …

incomplete bid data typically available to the auction designer in online auctions for advertising or e-commerce. This direct … auction observations needed in order for revenue under the estimated reserve price to approximate revenue under the optimal … reserve arbitrarily closely. This simple approach to estimating reserves may be particularly useful for auction design in Big …