Spectrum auctions

Since the mid-1990s auctions have been used by many governments around the world to allocate telecom frequencies. Auctiometrix has a large track record in assisting government agencies and private-sector companies in high stake spectrum auctions.

We offer the following services:

Given the government agencies’ objectives, we design the optimal auction based on game theoretic reasoning, laboratory experiments, auction simulations, and our practical auction expertise. We not only advise on the auction format, but also on the design details of the auction, including the packaging of the lots. Nowadays, one of the following five auction formats are most often used:

1. Simultaneous multi‐round auction (SMRA);

2. Simultaneous multi‐round auction (SMRA) with flexible switching rules;

3. SMRA-Clock Hybrid;

4. Combinatorial clock auction (CCA);

5. Hierarchical package bidding auction (HPBA).