Online Reverse Auctions for Procurement of Services

We investigate deliberation and bidding strategies of agents with unlimited but costly computation who are participating in auctions.







Using Auctions to Improve Tournaments - DTIC
First, bargain-hunting low-value bidders may perceive a larger lot size in an auction as a signal of higher inventory. So, a higher lot size is likely to raise ...
ESSAYS ON COMPETITION IN AUCTIONS AND IN CONTESTS by ...
Abstract. This paper analyzes automated distributive negotia- tion where agents have firm deadlines that are private information. The agents are allowed to ...
Guilty Pleas by the Innocent - Economics - Western University
As bidders gain experience within a sequence of auctions, they start choosing late bidding strategies. Our findings help auctioneers to design auction sequences ...
Scalable Internet Auctions - Newcastle University Theses
The research is part of the project ?Autonomous. Systems of Trade Agents?, funded by the Telematica Instituut. CIP-DATA LIBRARY TECHNISCHE ...
Searching a Bargain: ?Play it Cool? or Haggle
Coming to Tilburg University has been a truly life-changing experience, full of development, discovery and camaraderie. I have met many wonderful.
Bargaining with Deadlines
Each of these games is played under one of four experimental treatments identified as TA,TB,TC and TD. These treatments introduce different market protocols ...
Autonomous agents in bargaining games - TUE Research portal
We investigate deliberation and bidding strategies of agents with unlimited but costly computation who are participating in auctions.
Experimental Evidence on Semi-structured Bargaining with Private ...
These papers emphasize the role of bargaining between the intermediary and the sellers and the complex ways in which market power and product ...
Costly Valuation Computation in Auctions - TARK conferences
This study uses unique auction data to study loss aversion in sellers. Our analysis of TV shows including 512 auctions and 3,940 offers ...
Optimal Reserve Prices in Sequential Auctions with Imperfect ...
In contrast to treatments TB and TC, treatment TD implements an unconstrained bargaining floor in which players can update bids simultaneously ...
Experimental Evidence on Covert Bargaining Markets
The proliferation of online auctions has attracted significant research interest in understanding real-life bidding behavior. However, most of the empirical ...
Data-Driven Decision Making in Auction Markets
Auctions play a critical role in the modern society: governments use auctions to sell treasury bills, mineral rights and many other assets; firms use auctions ...