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Few forms of market exchange intrigue economists as do auctions, whose theoretical and practical implications are enormous. John Kagel and Dan Levin, complementing their own distinguished research with papers written with other specialists, provide a new focus on common value auctions and the "winner's curse." In such auctions the value of each item is about the same to all bidders, but different bidders have different information about the underlying value. Virtually all auctions have a common value element; among the burgeoning modern-day examples are those organized by Internet companies such as eBay. Winners end up cursing when they realize that they won because their estimates were overly optimistic, which led them to bid too much and lose money as a result. The authors first unveil a fresh survey of experimental data on the winner's curse. Melding theory with the econometric analysis of field data, they assess the design of government auctions, such as the spectrum rights (air wave) auctions that continue to be conducted around the world. The remaining chapters gauge the impact on sellers' revenue of the type of auction used and of inside information, show how bidders learn to avoid the winner's curse, and present comparisons of sophisticated bidders with college sophomores, the usual guinea pigs used in laboratory experiments. Appendixes refine theoretical arguments and, in some cases, present entirely new data. This book is an invaluable, impeccably up-to-date resource on how auctions work--and how to make them work.

Auctions --- Paradoxes --- Value --- 381.17 --- Standard of value --- Cost --- Economics --- Exchange --- Wealth --- Prices --- Supply and demand --- Dutch auctions --- Vendues --- Bailments --- Commercial law --- Auctions. --- Paradoxes. --- Value. --- E-books

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This book details the results of the authors' research using laboratory animals to investigate individual choice theory in economics-consumer-demand and labour supply behaviour and choice under uncertainty. The use of laboratory animals provides the opportunity to conduct controlled experiments involving precise and demanding tests of economic theory with rewards and punishments of real consequence. Economic models are compared to psychological and biological choice models along with the results of experiments testing between these competing explanations. Results of animal experiments are used to address questions of social policy importance.

Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Economics --- Consumption (Economics) --- Consumer behavior. --- Human behavior --- Animal models. --- Consumption (Economics). --- Business, Economy and Management --- AA / International- internationaal --- 339.320 --- 305.5 --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie --- Econometrie van de variaties van de vraag. Verbruiksfunctie. Econometrie van het gedrag van de verbruiker --- Animal models in research --- Behavior, Consumer --- Buyer behavior --- Decision making, Consumer --- Consumer profiling --- Market surveys --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory)

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