“per install” basis—plays a major role in the mix and characteristics of auction winners, and, consequently, in their … number of such users. The distortion becomes worse as the auction gets more competitive and the number of bidders increases …

timber auctions, the Forest Service publicly announces its estimates of the tract characteristics before the auction, and …

Recently, economists have developed methods for structural estimation of auction models. Many researchers object to … explore whether structural auction models can generate reasonable estimates of bidders' private information. Using bid data … from auction experiments, we estimate four alternative structural models of bidding in first-price sealed-bid auctions: 1 …

Ticketmaster. We first show theoretically that Ticketmaster's auction design, a novel variant of position auctions, has attractive … efficiency, revenue and no-arbitrage properties. Then, by combining primary-market auction data from Ticketmaster with secondary …

the type of auction considered. The equilibria of a static auction with this distribution of values is used to … characterize the equilibria of the dynamic auction, making this general class very tractable. As a result of the option of future … rebidding, early bids are shaded and under mild conditions increase toward the end of the auction. Our results are consistent …

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 …

This paper compares outcomes from informally negotiated oil and gas leases to those awarded via centralized auction. We …

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 …