This study examines bidder preferences between alternative auction institutions. In particular we seek to experimentally characterize the degree to which bidders prefer an ascending auction over a sealed bid auction. We ...

We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms that other the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior ...

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in ...