UCLA Anderson School of Management Tests of the sealed-bid abstraction in online auctions RFP 2008
University Of California-Los AngelesHigher Ed · Los Angeles, CA- Posted
- Aug 2, 2008
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SUMMARY
This paper presents five empirical tests of the popular modeling abstraction that bidders in ascending online auctions bid 'as if they were in a sealed bid auction.
The tests rely on observations of the magnitudes and timings of top two proxy bids, with the different tests stemming from different regularity assumptions about the underlying joint distribution of signals and timings. We apply the tests to data from three eBay markets - MP3 players, DVDs and used cars - and we reject the sealed-bid abstraction in all three datasets.
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- UCLA Anderson School of Management
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