Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2021

    Market Success: The Quest for the Objectives and Success Factors of Markets

  2. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

    We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed- bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Incomplete Contracts in Multi-Period Procurement

    We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. We distinguish between complete…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-037 // 2021

    Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

    We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-017 // 2021

    Social Norms and Market Behavior – Evidence From a Large Population Sample

    We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of…