Shills and snipes
Bose, S. and Daripa, Arup (2017) Shills and snipes. Games and Economic Behavior 104 , pp. 507-516. ISSN 0899-8256.
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Abstract
Online auctions with a fixed end-time often experience a sharp increase in bidding towards the end ("sniping") despite using a proxy-bidding format. We provide a novel explanation of this phenomenon under private values. We show that it is closely related to shill bidding by the seller. Late-bidding by buyers arises not to snipe each other, but to snipe the shill bids. We allow the number of bidders in the auction to be random and model a continuous bid arrival process. We show the existence of late-bidding equilibrium. Next, we characterize all equilibria under a natural monotonicity condition and show that they all involve sniping with positive probability. We characterize the time at which such late bidding occurs and discuss welfare implications.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Online auctions, correlated private values, last-minute bidding, sniping, shill bidding, random bidder arrival, continuous bid time, continuous bid arrival pro- cess |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Arup Daripa |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 08:55 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18741 |
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