Revenue from the saints, the showoffs and the predators : comparisons of auctions with price-preference values / Timothy C. Salmon, R. Mark Isaac -- Multiple public goods and lottery fund raising / Robert Moir -- The impact of social comparisons on nonprofit fund raising / Jen Shang, Rachel...

Motivated by both prior experimental work and by field observations, we consider the performance of two different sealed bid versions of the silent auction. These are important institutional alternatives to the more familiar ascending price silent auction. In a new series of laboratory...