Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Research Institute of Industrial Economics
No 1085: Decomposing the Afternoon Effect: An Empirical Investigation of Sequential Train Ticket Auctions
Ola Andersson () and Tommy Andersson ()
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Ola Andersson: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Postal: P.O. Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden, and Department of Economics, Lund University
Tommy Andersson: Department of Economics, Postal: Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Abstract: The afternoon effect, i.e., that prices in a sequence of auctions with identical items are decreasing with the order in which the auctions are terminated, is a frequently observed phenomenon in empirical auction studies. Using an unsurpassed amount of data from sequential online train ticket auctions, we investigate two hitherto unexplored dimensions inherent in sequential auctions, namely, the timing of auction ends and the presentation order of the auctions in a sequence. We find that both these dimensions are important for price formation in sequential auctions, but even when controlling for them, a sizable afternoon effect remains.
Keywords: Sequential auctions; Afternoon effect; Presentation order; Timing
Language: English
11 pages, October 5, 2015
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