Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2010:14: An Empirical Investigation of Efficiency and Price Uniformity in Competing Auctions
Tommy Andersson (), Christer Andersson and Fredrik Andersson ()
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Tommy Andersson: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Christer Andersson: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Fredrik Andersson: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
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.
Keywords: Competing auctions; Cross-bidding; Efficiency; Price uniformity
15 pages, December 9, 2010
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- Tommy Andersson, Christer Andersson and Fredrik Andersson, (2012), 'An Empirical Investigation of Efficiency and Price Uniformity in Competing Auctions', Economics Letters, vol 116, pages 99-102
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