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2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT 2005 Workshops)
Online Auctions: Insights into the First Bidder Discount
Trento, Italy
January 31-February 04
ISBN: 0-7695-2263-7
Ilka Weber, University of Karlsruhe
Internet auctions like Amazon or eBay use an ascending bid auction as the basic auction format. This basic auction format can be augmented by various price features: the First Bidder Discount is one example. In a First Bidder Discount auction the bidder receives a discount on the price to pay if the bidder was the first to place a bid. The objective of this paper is to analyse this mechanism and to present a theoretical model describing the rules of a discount auction. Furthermore, an analysis of bidder behaviour and the timing of bids in internet auctions that include an added discount is investigated.
Citation:
Ilka Weber, "Online Auctions: Insights into the First Bidder Discount," saint-w, pp.404-407, 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT 2005 Workshops), 2005
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