Testing for Price Anomalies in Real Estate Auctions

Orley Ashenfelter and David Genesove

No 4036, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reports on the results of an auction sale of 83 condominium apartment units in New Jersey. At the auction every unit was hammered down, but, unknown to the 2,348 registered bidders, 40% of the sales fell through. Prices in the subsequent sale of condominium units in face to face negotiations resulted in identical units selling for 13% less than they fetched at auction and the discount was largest for those units hammered down early in the auction. These results are inconsistent with the usual predictions from the theory of common value auctions and suggest that uninformed bidders in this auction may have been the subject of a "winner's curse" which generated considerable profit for the seller.

Date: 1992-03
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Published as Papers and Proceedings, AER (American Economic Review), May 1992, p.501-505vol. 82, no. 2

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