Ronald Harstad

An efficient ascending-bid auction for multiple objects (1997)

Ronald Harstad, John Ledyard, Eric Maskin, Paul Milgrom, Vernon Smith, Lawrence M. Ausubel, ...

I am extraordinarily grateful to Kathleen Jacobson and Peter Cramton for numerous helpful discussions. I also

Dominant Strategy Adoption and Bidders' Experience with Pricing Rules

Ronald Harstad

Truthful revelation is a dominant strategy in both English (oral ascending bid) and second-price sealed-bid private-values auctions. Controlled observations of English auctions are largely consistent...

Experimental Tests of Consciously Parallel Behaviour in Oligopoly

Ronald Harstad, Stephen Martin, Hans-Theo Normann

The purpose of this research is to examine, in experimental oligopoly markets, (a) whether parallel pricing patterns emerge when communication among players is limited to cheap talk announcements;...

Ex-post full surplus extraction, straightforwardly

Vlad Mares, Ronald Harstad

Common-value auctions, Full surplus extraction, Ex-post individual rationality, Mechanism design, D44, D82, D61, C72,