Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259988 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2010:14
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper investigates empirically a number of hypotheses that are related to efficiency and price uniformity in online competing auctions for train tickets. The data set is ideal for analyzing competing auctions since each ticket is sold in a separate auction and all auctions with identical tickets starts and ends at exactly the same time. The results unambiguously demonstrate that there is a strong relationship between efficiency and price uniformity on the one hand and the number of submitted cross-bids on the other hand. These findings are in line with what theory suggests.
Subjects: 
Competing auctions
Cross-bidding
Efficiency
Price uniformity
JEL: 
D40
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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