“…The research activity on simultaneous auctions is mainly focused on finding solutions to problems related to: bidding policy (Fornara & Gambardella, 2001;Gerding, Dash, Yuen, & Jennings, 2006;Preist, Bartolini, & Phillips, 2001), which is concerned with issues such as deciding on which auctions to bid in, as well as how much to bid; cross-bidding (Kayhan, McCart, & Bhattacherjee, 2010;McCart, Kayhan, & Bhattacherjee, 2009), which studies the behavior of participating simultaneously in multiple auctions that offer the same good; and collusion (Brusco & Lopomo, 2002;Sherstyuk & Dulatre, 2008;Tsang, Koh, Dobbie, & Alam, 2014), which studies participants' ability to conduct secretive cooperative agreements intended to distort the competition.…”