ensuing auction, leading to loss of efficiency and eliminating the revenue dominance typically observed in firstprice auctions. …

-unit, multi-bid uniform auction, modelled as a Bayesian game of incomplete information. At the auction each firm anticipates his … as their bidding strategies and it precludes the auction from generating a cost-effective allocation of permits, as it … would occur in simpler auction models. Auctioning tends to be more cost-effective than grandfathering when the firms' costs …

Drawing on the real-options theory we analyse bidding behaviour in a sealed-bid-first-score procurement auction where …

seconds of an auction, knowing that bids arriving after the closure of the auction are not counted. They also bid several … times at the same auction. We model Internet auction as a dynamic multi-unit auction. This let us explain the rationality of …

.S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more … for these qualitative effects of auction format. We then calibrate the model using parameters estimated from the data and … bidder competitiveness, which has important consequences for auction choice. …

We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction … of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue, however, that auction markets deserve a separate treatment. Indeed we …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first …

We consider an auction setting in which potential buyers, even if they fail to obtain the good, care about the price … paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second …-price auction in a symmetric information framework. First, we consider situations in which bidders care about the price paid …