American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Using Field Experiments to Test Equivalence between Auction Formats: Magic on the Internet
American Economic Review
vol. 89,
no. 5, December 1999
(pp. 1063–1080)
Abstract
William Vickrey's predicted equivalences between first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, and between second-price sealed-bid and English auctions, are tested using field experiments that auctioned off collectible trading cards over the Internet. The results indicate that the Dutch auction produces 30-percent higher revenues than the first-price auction format, a violation of the theoretical prediction and a reversal of previous laboratory results, and that the English and second-price formats produce roughly equivalent revenues.Citation
Lucking-Reiley, David. 1999. "Using Field Experiments to Test Equivalence between Auction Formats: Magic on the Internet." American Economic Review, 89 (5): 1063–1080. DOI: 10.1257/aer.89.5.1063JEL Classification
- D44 Auctions