Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81486 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 882
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theortical properties, there are behavioral aspects that are not easily captured. To explore this issue in more detail, this paper experimentally investigates what role the design of the auction format has for its outcome. The results suggest that the sealed bid mechanism performs weakly better in all of investigated measures (consistent reporting, efficiency etc.). In addition, we find that the performance of the ascending auction is increasing over time, whereas the sealed bid auction shows no such tendency.
Subjects: 
Auctions
Non-manipulability
Efficiency
Experiments
JEL: 
C91
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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