Dynamic Alliance Auctions

A Mechanism for Internet-Based Transportation Markets

Tobias Ihde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 150 Seiten

2003 | 2004
Physica (Verlag)
978-3-7908-0098-2 (ISBN)

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1.1 Motivation Today's transportation market is far from perfect. Market participants have admission only to a certain fraction of the market and price formation lacks transparency. However, this state is no law of nature since in principle, all market participants could manage to get together somehow and do business - but gaining new business partners beyond existing bonds usually takes too high efforts. After all, the items in transportation markets are usually traded under extreme time pressure: transportation orders have fixed pick-up and delivery deadlines and free transportation capacity cannot be used thereafter. Here, Internet-based freight markets promise help. Since the early 1990s many of such markets have come into existence so that a considerable number ex ists today. For Germany alone, over 50 different electronic transportation marketplaces are listed in a database hosted at the University at Bremen (2001). The mediation models of these marketplaces are quite diverse (cp.

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation.- 1.2 Environment and Aim of the Thesis.- 1.3 Contribution of the Thesis.- 1.4 Organization of the Thesis.- I Background.- 2 Theories.- 3 Internet-Based Freight Marketplaces.- II Freight Auctions.- 4 Conventional Freight Auctions.- 5 Dynamic Alliance Auctions.- III Evaluation.- 6 Stages and Price Division.- 7 Efficiency, Payoff, and Bids.- 8 Experiment.- 9 Putting Insights to Practice.- A Proofs.- B Formulas.- B.1 Expected Payoff.- C Experiment.- C.1 Translated Instructions.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.10.2003
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Management Science
Zusatzinfo	X, 150 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Heidelberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	255 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Schlagworte	auctions • Demand Aggregation • Elektrisches Netzwerk • Experimental economics • Internet • Internet-Based Marketplaces • Internet; Spezielle Anwendungsbereiche • Logistik • Transport • Transportation
ISBN-10	3-7908-0098-8 / 3790800988
ISBN-13	978-3-7908-0098-2 / 9783790800982
Zustand	Neuware