The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auctions use a simultaneous ascending auction design. Bidders bid … mitigate collusive bidding in the spectrum auctions, and then apply these ideas to the design of daily electricity auctions. …

This paper describes the signaling that occurred in many of the FCC spectrum auctions. The FCC's simultaneous ascending … auctions allowed bidders to bid on numerous communication licenses simultaneously, with bidding remaining open on all licenses …

marketing agencies specialized in bidding in the auctions that are used to sell ad space on the web. We analyze how collusive … (used by Facebook). We find that, despite its well-known susceptibility to collusion, the VCG mechanism outperforms the GSP …

This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in … order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the … collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in behavior between ring members and non-members. In these auctions, collusio …

A proposed auction design for incentive auctions is given. The two-sided auctions enable the exchange of spectrum from …

with getting the best price for the stock- holders at a sale of the company." The Delaware courts' preference for auctions …. Second, auctions maximize shareholder returns. The two premises together imply that a target's board should conduct an …

tradable and bankable. The government would conduct quarterly auctions. A standard ascending-clock auction in which price is …