Auction data
auctions.RdData on eBay auctions, based upon the paper "Econometrics of Auctions by Least Squares" by Leonardo Rezende, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23:925-948. The dataset consists of eBay auctions for Apple iPod mini devices in June and July 2006, limited to only auctions for the 4GB models.
Format
auctions
A data frame with 684 rows and 14 columns:
- ebay_auction_id
eBay auction ID number
- bidders
Number of bidders
- finalprice
Final sales price
- seller_feedback_pct
Seller's positive feedback percentage (e.g., 90 = 90%)
- seller_feedback_score
Seller's feedback score (number of feedbacks received)
- reserveprice
Reserve price set by seller (value of 0.01 if no reserve price)
- color_pink
1 if iPod is pink, 0 otherwise
- color_blue
1 if iPod is blue, 0 otherwise
- color_silver
1 if iPod is silver, 0 otherwise
- color_green
1 if iPod is green, 0 otherwise
- color_other
1 if iPod is another color, 0 otherwise
- new
1 if condition listed is new, 0 otherwise
- used
1 if condition listed is used, 0 otherwise
- refurb
1 if condition listed is refurbished, 0 otherwise