The flexibility of time and location as well as the availability of an abundance of both old and new products makes online auctions an important part of people's daily shopping experience. While many bidders rely on variants of the well-documented early or last-minutes bidding strategies,...

Electronic commerce, and in particular online auctions, have received an extreme surge of popularity in recent years. While auction theory has been studied for a long time from a game-theory perspective, the electronic implementation of the auction mechanism poses new and challenging research...

Empirical research of online auctions has dramatically grown in recent years. Studies using publicly available bid data from websites such as eBay.com have found many divergences of bidding behavior and auction outcomes compared to ordinary offline auctions and auction theory. Among the main...