In the past 15 years, governments around the world have often used auctions to sellscarce licenses to operate in markets. In many of these auctions, the number of interestedcompetitors is relatively small compared to the number of available licenses. Auctiondesign is crucial in such...

This thesis consists of studies in the field of experimental economics. The first two chapters of the thesis deal with the issue of subject selection in Cournot Oligopoly experiments. In particular, chapter 1 presents a study which was designed to test whether a predominant personality inventory...