This workshop is free to attend, but you must book your place by 14 May 2025.
There is a growing recognition that auctions are one of the most efficient tools for resource allocation. Because of this, they are becoming increasingly important within the economic, social and computational fields.
For instance, the European Union (EU) uses auctions to allocate pollution permits, allowing factories to bid on the level of emissions they are permitted to emit; the UK government promotes investment in renewable energy by offering a guaranteed electricity sale price, determined through auctions; and in the financial sector, they have long been used for various purposes such as bond sales and corporate takeovers.
Our two-day workshop will bring together researchers and industry professionals for a range of sessions covering theoretical and empirical research around this topic.
The workshop will include insights from guest speakers, who will share their perspectives and detail recent advancements and key challenges. It will also provide a forum to promote open conversations and debates.
This is open to researchers, industry professionals and University of Bath PhD students.
Speakers and talks
This workshop will feature talks from invited speakers and contributors.
Invited talks
| Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|
| Dr Sohail Ahmed - Lead Structurer, EP Commodities B.V | Dutch power market, renewable subsidies and structured products |
| Dr Elizabeth Baldwin - University of Oxford | Product-mix auctions |
| Professor Todd Kaplan - University of Exeter and University of Haifa | A natural experiment in fair division: Armageddon chess |
| Professor Daniel Krähmer - Universität Bonn | Screening with flexible investments |
| Professor Salvatore Piccolo - University of Bergamo | Environmental damages, captured regulators and the role of discretion |
| Dr Georgios Piliouras - Google DeepMind | The complex dynamics of real world markets and auctions |
Contributed talks
| Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|
| Dr Elnaz Bajoori - University of Bath | Bidding behaviour in security bid auctions; theory and experiment |
| Dr Aleksei Chernulich - Durham University | Duels between duals: An experimental comparison of compensation auctions |
| Professor Subhasish M Chowdhury - University of Sheffield | Optimal reimbursement schemes in contests |
| Dr Tatiana Kornienko - King’s College London | Competitive bidding, predation, and expropriation: A unified model |
| Dr Ron Lavi - University of Bath | Principal-Agent VCG contracts |
| Professor Indrajit Ray - Cardiff University | An experiment on the role of priors in a discrete bid Japanese English auction for a wallet game |
| Manpreet Singh - Paris School of Economics | Designing large procurement auctions: India’s utility-scale renewable electricity market |
| Alessandro Veneri - European University Institute | Competition in digital advertising with asymmetric consumer information |
| Dr Xiaoyu Zhou - University of Nottingham | Market selection of strategic thinking types |
Call for contributors
We invite contributed talks on any topic related to auctions.
Anyone is encouraged to apply, including doctoral students and early-career researchers. Partial reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs will be provided to speakers travelling within the UK.
Applications have now closed (the deadline to submit was 25 March 2025).
