This paper studies all‐pay auctions in which there is a buy‐price option for bidders to guarantee purchases at a seller‐specified price. We analyze symmetric increasing bidding equilibria in the first‐ and second‐price all‐pay auctions with the buy‐price option. While the optimal...

This paper studies all-pay auctions for a product in which there is a buy-price option for bidders to guarantee purchases at a seller-specified price. We analyze symmetric pure-strategy equilibria in the first- and second-price all-pay auctions with the buy-price option. Under these equilibria,...

In a recent paper, Odegaard and Anderson (2014) consider a setting of two sales channels: a fixed list price store and an all-pay auction with a buy-price option. They did not address the concern on the coexistence of two channels. If a single firm operates dual channels, we show that the seller...