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 …

“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 …

observe alternative information regimes, we build a model, calibrate it to auction results data, and use it to quantify … counter-factuals. We estimate that yearly auction revenues with full-information sharing (with clients and between dealers …