Title
Bidding for Bidders? How the Format for Soliciting Supplier Participation in NYOP Auctions Impacts Channel Profit
Abstract
AbstractIn a name-your-own-price NYOP auction, consumers bid for a product or service. If a bid exceeds the concealed threshold price, the consumer receives the product at her bid price. This paper examines how to optimize the interactions between the NYOP retailer and service providers, while, at the same time, managing the bid acceptance rates in order to induce the desired consumer bidding behavior. Channel profit is impacted by how the retailer decides whether or not a given consumer bid will be accepted and, if so, which service provider is chosen to supply a unit of the product to the consumer. We devise a mechanism, the modified second-price auction, which maximizes channel profit.This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1287/mnsc.2016.2556
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
reverse auctions,name-your-own-price,bidding,channel coordination
English auction,Bid shading,Auction sniping,Economics,Unique bid auction,Microeconomics,Proxy bid,Reverse auction,Bidding,Bid price
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
12
0025-1909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Scott Fay150.74
Robert Zeithammer2315.11