Shachat, Jason; Wei, Lijia - In: Marketing Science 31 (2012) 2, pp. 317-333
We use laboratory experiments to examine the relative performance of the English auction (EA) and the first-price sealed-bid auction (FPA) when procuring a commodity. The mean and variance of prices are lower in the FPA than in the EA. Bids and prices in the EA agree with game-theoretic...