Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122008 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2015-037
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-No" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and offline markets. Despite very different strategic implications for buyers and sellers, results from our experiment suggest no effects of bargaining power on aggregate outcomes. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity within sellers. Sellers who neglect the adverse selection effect of their own price offer in the BIN format coud benefit from giving up bargaining power by using the "Sell-It-Now" fromat.
Subjects: 
Buy-It-Now price
Sell-It-Now price
private value auction
single item auction
sequential selling mechanism
fixed price
auction
JEL: 
C72
C91
D44
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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