This paper provides an elementary, non‐technical, survey of auction theory, by introducing
and describing some of the critical papers in the subject.(The most important of these are …

This chapter explains the logic of structural econometric models and compares them to other
types of econometric models. We provide a framework researchers can use to develop and …

Auction Theory, Second Edition improves upon his 2002 bestseller with a new chapter on
package and position auctions as well as end-of-chapter questions and chapter notes …

February 2000 was a stressful month for me: the UK 3G auction was about to begin. For over
two years I had been working with the UK government to design the world's first auction of …

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 …

I describe a model of entry with endogenous product‐type choices. These choices are
formalized as the outcomes of a game of incomplete information in which rivals' …

Employing a procedure suggested by a simple theoretical model of auctions in which
bidders and sellers have observable and heterogenous reputations for default, we examine …

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the determinants of prices in online auctions
for collectible United States one‐cent coins at the eBay web site. Starting with an initial data …

This paper presents new identification results for models of first–price, second–price,
ascending (English), and descending (Dutch) auctions. We consider a general specification …

While English auctions are the most common in practice, their rules typically lack sufficient
structure to yield a tractable theoretical model without significant abstractions. Rather than …