Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122210 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2015-03
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We analyze mechanism choices of competing sellers with private valuations and show the existence of monotone pure strategy equilibria where sellers with higher reservation value choose mechanisms with a lower selling probability and a larger revenue in case of trade. As an application we investigate the choice between posted prices and auctions and demonstrate that sellers refuse to offer posted prices as long as (risk-neutral) buyers do not differ with respect to their transaction costs in both trade institutions. If some buyers have lower transaction costs when trading at a posted price, it is optimal for sellers to offer posted prices if and only if they have a sufficiently high reservation value. We develop an empirical strategy to estimate revenues of posted prices and auctions that takes selling probabilities explicitly into account, and confirm our theoretical predictions with data from the EURO 2008 European Football Championship.
Subjects: 
Competing Sellers
Single-Crossing
Auctions
Fixed Prices
JEL: 
D43
D44
D82
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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