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- a sale of goods or property by competitive bidding on the spot, by mail, by telecommunications, or over the Internet
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- Manitowoc Wins Enodis Auction With $2.7 Billion Bid
- CHICAGO (Reuters UK) - Manitowoc Inc MTW said on Monday it had beat out Illinois Tool Works Inc ITW ITW in the official auction for British kitchen equipment maker Enodis ENO. Enodis was at the centre of a takeover tussle between the two U.S.-based diversified...
- News items 2008-06-30
- Vodafone Seen Pulling Out of Tiscali Auction
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Mobile phone group Vodafone VOD has pulled out of the auction for Italy's Tiscali TIS, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The newspaper cited people close to the auction as saying that Tiscali had received at least one offer, but that Vodafone...
- News items 2008-06-19
- Massachusetts Sues UBS Units For Fraud
- By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters UK) - Massachusetts authorities sued two subsidiaries of Swiss bank UBS AG UBSN with fraud on Thursday, saying they misled investors about the safety of auction-rate securities. In the complaint, top state securities regulator William Galvin accused UBS Securities LLC...
- News items 2008-06-26
- M&A Auctions: Are You Ready to Sell Your Company on eBay?
- Auctions seem to have taken over the world of middle market mergers and acquisitions in recent years. It's enough to make a person wonder if eBay will soon advertise "Slightly used high tech company/one owner/mint condition" along with its roster of books, appliances, and autographed baseballs. Like other auctions, M&A...
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- Strategic Sourcing Through Reverse Auctions
- A buyer always looks for the best deal possible when he is purchasing products and services, has suppliers competing for business; and discover the optimum terms the market is willing to offer. This article reveals that thanks to reverse auctions, the purchasing organization can control costs, gain efficiencies and maximize...
- White papers
- DOT Issues Recommendations for Reducing Delays
- I know, we've heard this one before. Once again, the DOT has issued a few changes to try and help reduce delays and generally make traveling better. Most of them are snoozers - not anything new or exciting but rather firming up of old proposals. But there...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Priceline.com Inc. (PCLN)
- Now there's an Auntie Anne's Pretzels where that boring travel agency used to be. Thank you, Priceline.com Inc. PCLN
- Videos 2008-05-14
- The FCC Auction: Your Top Questions Answered
- Tomorrow the FCC will begin auctioning several chunks of the public airwaves. With the latest government figures indicating that the number of mobile wireless high-speed subscribers in America grew by more than 600 percent in 2006, and every indication that the Mobile Internet will continue to boom, the auction is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Notice of Auction Of Collateral
- Prepare a notice of auction of collateral with this easy-to-use template. This template of notice is given to a debtor by a secured party, advising the debtor that certain collateral pledged as security by the debtor will be sold at public auction by the secured party to cover all or...
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Optimal Procurement Auctions Of Divisible Goods With Capacitated Suppliers
- The literature on procurement auctions reverse auctions typically assumes that the suppliers are uncapacitated. Consequently, these auction mechanisms award the contract to a single supplier. A model is considered where suppliers have limited production capacity, and both marginal costs and the production capacities are private information. This paper constructs the...
- White papers 2007-08-31
- Google Wireless?
- Google announced last Friday that it earmarked at least $4.6 billion to enter the wireless industry via an upcoming federal auction of the once-occupied 700-MHz band of airwaves. But Google also said it won't participate in the auction unless the Federal Communications Commission FCC agrees to an "open access" framework,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Deterministic Vs. Stochastic Entry: A Benefit Of Running An Auction-Negotiation Hybrid Mechanism
- In auctions with costly entry, the entry process matters. This paper compares expected revenues generated by different entry processes. It is shown that an auction with deterministic entry usually generates more expected revenue than that with stochastic entry. Thus influencing the entry process by reducing the randomness of participation is...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Understanding Strategic Bidding In Multi-Unit Auctions
- This paper examines the bidding behavior of firms competing in the newly created spot market for electricity in Texas, where electricity generating firms submit hourly supply schedules to sell power. The publisher characterizes an equilibrium model of bidding into this market and use detailed firm-level data on bids and marginal...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Customer Behavior Modeling In Revenue Management And Auctions: A Review And New Research Opportunities
- Customer behavior modeling has been gaining increasing attention in the operations management community. It is vital to correctly modeling customer behavior, as a poor understanding of customer behavior can lead to suboptimal decisions with financial implications. This paper reviews current models of customer behavior in the revenue management and auction...
- White papers 2007-05-25
- Information Entrepreneurs And Competition In Procurement Auctions
- One of the most important goals of auction design is to attract as many bidders as possible. This paper study the role of a third party, called an information entrepreneur that collects and sells announcements about forthcoming auctions, with the ostensible goal of encouraging participation. A model is presented in...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Why Don't IPO Firms Disclose A Reserve Price?: Secret Reservation Prices In A Divisible Good Auction
- A significant proportion of IPOs Initial Public Offering filed with the SEC are withdrawn during bookbuilding when it becomes clear to the issuer that they will not achieve a minimum acceptable offer price. Why don't issuers disclose this price at the outset? This question is important given that in many...
- White papers 2006-11-24
- Three Essays On Auction, Bargaining And Contract Theory
- Many real-life contract agreements actually involve negotiations in which both parties have some bargaining power. However, standard contract theory assumes that the principal holds all of the bargaining power. The literature has typically modeled that with a one-shot game in which the principal makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the agent....
- White papers 2006-11-20
- Incentives In Core-Selecting Auctions
- Recent years have seen a number of new and important applications of stable matching procedures in practical applications, including school assignments in New York and Boston and new designs for life-saving organ exchanges. The mechanisms that have been adopted, and sometimes even the runner-up mechanisms, are stable mechanisms that select...
- White papers 2006-10-18
- Internet Advertising And The Generalized Second-Price Auction
- This paper explains a new auction mechanism, which we call the "Generalized Second-Price" auction, or GSP. GSP is tailored to the unique environment of the market for online ads, and neither the environment nor the mechanisms have previously been studied in the mechanism design literature. While studying the properties of...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Bidding Dynamics In B2B Reverse Auctions
- Internet auctions have seen a widespread adoption in business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), and business-to-business (B2B) environments (Bapna, Goes and Gupta 2000; Beam and Segev 1998; Bichler et al. 2002; Elmaghraby 2004; Van Heck and Vervest 1998). Researchers have studied B2C and C2C auctions and generated new insights that cast doubt...
- White papers 2006-07-24
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