their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … show that sniping in a fixed deadline auction can occur even at equilibrium in auctions with private values, as well as in …In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders 'snipe', i.e., they submit …

Internet auctions have recently gained widespread popularity and are one of the most successful forms of electronic … commerce. We examine a dataset of eBay coin auctions to explore features of online bidding and selling behavior. We find that … behavior and that bidding activity is concentrated at the end of the auction. We then develop new econometric techniques to …

Internet auctions have recently gained widespread popularity and are one of the most successful forms of electronic … commerce. We examine a unique dataset of eBay coin auctions to explore the determinants of bidder and seller behavior. We first …

their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … show that sniping in a fixed deadline auction can occur even at equilibrium in auctions with private values, as well as in …In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit …