—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Abstract. Current auctions often expose bidding agents to two difficult, yet common, problems. First, bidding agents often have the opportunity to participate in successive auctio...
This paper presents efficient secure auction protocols for first price auction and second price auction. Previous auction protocols are based on a generally secure multi-party prot...
Several papers compare auctioning heterogeneous assets sequentially with sequentially selling the right to choose among assets not yet taken. Typically motivated by auctions of co...
: Do firms neglect competition when making entry decisions? Using a dataset of 14,973 eBay auctions this paper addresses this question analyzing the time of day at which sellers se...