Public versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions: Results from a Pokémon Field Experiment

By R. Katkar, David H. Reiley. 2007

198 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Marketing

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Imran Rasul
2. Richard J. Zeckhauser
3. Eric A. Walden
4. John A. List
5. M. Melnik
6. Robert J. Kauffman
7. Paul Resnick
8. Assaf Schuster

In Marketing

1. Liran Einav
2. Imran Rasul
3. M. Melnik
4. Robert J. Kauffman
5. Paul Resnick
6. Neel Sundaresan
7. John Swanson
8. Eric A. Walden

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing Sale Strategies in Online Markets Using Matched Listings (2015, background): “For instance, Ku et al. (2006) argue that bidders may exhibit escalating commitment so that lower start prices increase the odds of a sale and also the price conditional on sale. They present supporting evidence of this based on a sample of Persian rug and digital camera auctions on eBay. Simonsohn ”
• Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing (2011, background): “Katkar, R. and Reiley, D. H. 2006.”
• Economics and Electronic Commerce: Survey and Directions for Research (2001, background): “Katkar and Lucking-Reiley offer a related insight in a different context from coins: that secret reserve prices make the seller worse off by lowering the probability that someone will bid on an item [213].”
• Field experiments in labor economics (2010, methodology): “…field experiments of this genre have been published in the economics literature, ranging from further tests of auction theory (Lucking-Reiley 1999, Katkar and Reiley 2006), tests of the theory of private provision of public goods (Bohm 1984, List 2004a), tests that examine the relative predictive…”
• Seller Reputation, Information Signals, and Prices for Heterogeneous Coins on eBay (2005, background): “Klein and Leffler (1981), Shapiro (1983), and Allen (1984) derive a similar conclusion.”
• The value of reputation on eBay: A controlled experiment (2006, methodology): “For example, Camerer manipulated betting markets (Camerer, 1998), List and Lucking-Reiley compared different methods of soliciting charitable contributions (List and Lucking-Reiley, 2002) and of auctioning multiple units of a good (List and Lucking-Reiley, 2000), and Lucking-Reiley tested the effect”